Efficient Editing With vim

Re:Efficient Editing With vim by scott_s on Friday September 25, 2009 @03:01PM (#844073)

By force of habit, when I wanted to close an IM window, I have typed

:q

Instead of switching to the mouse and hitting the "x". Then I had to explain to the person that I wasn't sticking my tongue out at them.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by nostrademons on Friday September 25, 2009 @03:40PM (#844163)

I once wrote ":tabnew something.js" in my IM window and sent it before I realized that the wrong window had focus. The person replied with, "bash: :tabnew: command not found." I told him, "I was hoping you were vim, actually".

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by GrandMasterBirt on Friday September 25, 2009 @04:45PM (#844315)

HA!

Also using vim will cause your escape key to be heavily hit constantly after typing anything especially if you are not sure what mode you are in, then only realizing you are not in vim period.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by gurraman on Sunday September 27, 2009 @03:51PM (#847185)

  inoremap jj <Esc>

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by robotron on Friday September 25, 2009 @06:31PM (#844580)

Oh god I do this so much it's getting to be painful.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by buugs on Saturday September 26, 2009 @12:57AM (#845035)

ctrl+c is much better than esc :) but I use emacs more than vi[m]

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by apotheon on Saturday September 26, 2009 @02:41PM (#845868)

Yeah -- more (keys) is always better!

Oh, wait . . .

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by buugs on Saturday September 26, 2009 @05:26PM (#846099)

I don't have esc bound to caps-lock so its a reach!

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by graywh on Saturday September 26, 2009 @12:20AM (#844977)

We see a lot of ":q" messages in #vim.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by Pistos2 on Friday September 25, 2009 @04:45PM (#844318)

I've hit Ctrl-W to try to delete a word, and ended up closing an IRC window. It's not exclusive to vim. :)

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by chancho on Friday September 25, 2009 @10:36PM (#844897)

OS X:

Put the following in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBindings.dict

{ "^w" = "deleteWordBackward:"; }

GTK:

echo 'gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"' >>~/.gtkrc-2.0

gconftool -t string --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs

Windows:

... uh ...

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by apotheon on Friday September 25, 2009 @07:00PM (#844628)

I've found it easy to avoid misusing Ctrl-w because of the fact I use it so much to close tabs in Firefox. You just need to have two different uses for something, both of which you use very regularly, to get used to not accidentally misusing them, I've found.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by greyfade on Friday September 25, 2009 @10:19PM (#844883)

Vimperator will break that habit, for sure.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by apotheon on Saturday September 26, 2009 @01:06AM (#845051)

Alas, I think you may be right. I haven't been using it very long.

Once I actually buckled down and started learning how to use it, I was surprised by how quickly and easily a natural feeling of "this is how it should be" developed while using Vimperator. Of course, there's a lot of positive transference of knowledge from my heavy use of Vim itself, but still -- I didn't expect to find it this easy.

I think part of the reason may be that every single keyboard-driven browser I have ever used before (Lynx, W3m, Links, et cetera, ad infinitum) was so awful as a Web interface that I became convinced Web browsers were a uniquely GUI-suited type of application. Vimperator is definitely changing my mind.

Thank goodness.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by jcw on Friday September 25, 2009 @05:00PM (#844368)

I've hit ctrl-w and closed a window while taking a test in class.

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Re:Efficient Editing With vim by scott_s on Friday September 25, 2009 @05:39PM (#844467)

When I first switched to my Mac, when I'd switch between split windows (ctrl w w), I'd often accidentally close my Terminal session (command w). The Apple Command sat where I expected ctrl to be.

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