One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac

Posted by DaNmarner on Friday May 02, 2014 @12:25PM
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http://danmarner.com/2014/05/02/One-Weird-Trick-To-Make-Vim-Go-Faster-On-Your-Mac.html

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Re:One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac by anveo on Friday May 02, 2014 @01:18PM (#7686933)

If you want to automate this:

  defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0
  defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 12

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Re:One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac by Gravityloss on Friday May 02, 2014 @06:40PM (#7688602)

Surprised, isn't this something that everyone does on OSX right after install / opening a new computer anyway? I don't understand how they came up with the slow-as-molasses defaults.

Mouse responsiveness has also always been inexcusably sub-par compared to Windows and Linux.

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Re:One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac by tsm on Friday May 02, 2014 @01:14PM (#7686913)

This is a preference, not an optimization.

I have very high key repeat and mouse speed on my laptop, and when coworkers pair with me they don't say, "Wow, your vim is so much faster than mine!" They say, "Geez, your computer is crazy!"

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Re:One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac by nanofortnight on Friday May 02, 2014 @01:15PM (#7686921)

Are you holding down hjkl or something?

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Re:One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac by ntkachov on Friday May 02, 2014 @01:13PM (#7686907)

Odd, I have them both all the way on the right and it still feels slugish to me.

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