The primary reason I like vim over emacs is that my hand movement distance away from the home row is very low (even as a programmer). However, the one main time that I do this is leaving insert mode, by pressing Escape.
I recently learned that I can use Ctrl+C to leave insert mode as well. Howev...
Somewhat. Typists can, in fact, learn to type faster on a Dvorak keyboard, it's just not a big improvement.
Consider, from The Standard and Dvorak Keyboards Revisited: Direct Measures of Speed:
The Dvorak typewriter keyboard was found to produce speeds of keying 4.0
percent faster than tho...
I am a programmer and have been for over 20 years and I am starting to feel the effects of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I have always used the QWERTY style keyboard though I have often heard that the DVORAK style was better and more ergonomic. In doing research I found this site which claims:
Ma...
The title kind of says it all. I'm asking, because this
Performing certain operations without clearing the clipboard question seems to be sufficiently answered http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54255/in-vim-is-there-a-way-to-delete-without-putting-text-in-the-register here.
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When people have issue where Vim is not working as expected the root cause can (often) be tracked back to .vimrc (or an outdated / buggy plugin). As people often do not know which part of the rc file is at fault, they think they know, but are wrong, etc. I guess some way to include the users rc f...
There are quite a few questions one could ask about vim that can be legitimately answered with "yes, here's a link to a plugin that does exactly that."
For example:
How can I comment code with a command in Vim
Is there a way to use different settings for different projects?
How to get intellig...
The primary reason I like vim over emacs is that my hand movement distance away from the home row is very low (even as a programmer). However, the one main time that I do this is leaving insert mode, by pressing Escape.
I recently learned that I can use Ctrl+C to leave insert mode as well. Howev...
On some unixes sometime I found a command named nvi. It was a vi-like editor, without much of its functionality. Maybe it was a fork of the old vi?
Anyways, which vi versions are a fork of the others, and which are independent developments? Do they have a "family tree", similar to the unixes?
I recently had a long discussion on gaming meta regarding “Help me remember this game” questions. I’ll spare you all the gory details; my general conclusion was this:
If we get an excellent user who asks a good, thoughtful [game] identification question and sticks around in our community to participate, then it’s worth allowing it in those rare cases as a high quality “getting to know you” fun question.
This reminded me of a conversation I once had on Server Fault Chat about mod rewrite questions. This is a true gray area in our network. It’s tricky, bec …
Tmux is often used in conjunction with vim, and sometimes I don't even know if the problem I'm experiencing is with vim, tmux, or my terminal.
So, is it ok to ask questions about tmux, or the terminal?
