20 Years of Vim

Re:20 Years of Vim by amelius on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:16PM (#37102260)

Thanks! Now I'm curious what is bad about hjkl movements :)

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Re:20 Years of Vim by JNRowe on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:31PM (#37102385)

I perhaps shouldn't have said "bad," as my opinions sadly aren't universal truths ;)

However, my reasoning is the same as noted in echelon's reply. There are often far better ways to move around as described in ":h text-objects" and ":h motion.txt" more generally.

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Re:20 Years of Vim by echelon on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:17PM (#37102276)

You tend to overuse arrow key-like navigation instead of developing chords of movements.

I got stuck in that suboptimal mode and had to break myself of it.

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Re:20 Years of Vim by fortunateregard on Saturday August 12, 2023 @02:10PM (#37102726)

https://github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.nvim

https://github.com/takac/vim-hardtime

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Re:20 Years of Vim by smackeyacky on Saturday August 12, 2023 @05:01PM (#37104191)

So am I. Not all terminals actually had cursor keys.

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Re:20 Years of Vim by ykonstant on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:41AM (#37108267)

Ideally, you would never need to adjust motion by a random number of characters; you would use semantic motion by text object, making hjkl a rare corrective move. In practice, we are only humans, so...

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