Vim is touch-typing on steroids

Re:Vim is touch-typing on steroids by Aperocky on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:05AM (#34364475)

Great point, /SEARCH_TERM and n is extremely useful for finding stuff and understanding. also when you screw up either because muscle memory went haywire or the logic looks bad then just uuuuu until the status bar (plugin) show no change since last save.

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Re:Vim is touch-typing on steroids by p-e-w on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:13AM (#34364830)

As opposed to other editors, which don't have shortcuts for search and undo?

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Re:Vim is touch-typing on steroids by rhaway84773 on Monday January 16, 2023 @08:46PM (#34408176)

Ctrl/CMD + Z vs u

Ctrl/CMD + Y vs r

There’s a significant difference in speed. But more importantly, the former requires RSI inducing finger gymnastics, whereas the latter is a tap of a fingertip.

The much faster speed but more importantly less complicated chords/key taps in VIM, leads to a qualitatively different editing/reading experience.

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Re:Vim is touch-typing on steroids by worksonmine on Friday January 13, 2023 @08:50AM (#34367617)

If your goal is to return to the state where you opened the file ":earlier 10m" might be more useful than spamming u.

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