You really have to learn the "language" of vim though, to be productive with it. To try to explain succinctly, you have "verbs" like d and "nouns" like w, G, ib etc., so you can hit dw to delete a word, dG to delete to the end of the file, and dib to delete-inside-block (delete the current block that your cursor is on). The beauty of it though is that you can combine any "verb" with any "noun." So if you want to yank (copy) instead of deleting, you just hit yw, yG, or yib.
Your "nouns" are basically all of your motions, plus text objects (in something or around something). So if you can move there, you can (usually) send the motion to a "verb" to apply it to that. For example, you can combine gu (convert to lowercase) with / (find) to get gu/potatoes<cr>, which converts to lowercase until you reach the word "potatoes."
Obviously a contrived example, but hopefully you can start to see how powerful vim can be with that in mind.
Right, but once you get used to never touching your mouse, it's impossible to go back ;)
Also, it's totally okay to use only the arrow keys or whatever at first, while you're still getting used to it. That's what I did; nobody can learn all of this stuff at once!
Or of course you could just not use vim. Some people just can't get the hang of how to use obviously the best editor that has ever— err, yeah. :P
For multiple recent questions, people have wanted to close a question because the question was too narrow - not enough variety of potential answers to make it interesting.
Those questions were: Sign that word!, , and Fibonacci in +!()[]script.
The desire for such a close reason has come up befo...
I don't even remember seeing that question. (I could check the deleted user page, but I believe that's mod-only information that I can't share in public.)
Yep, but I don't recall seeing the question before now (which is strange, since it seems like something I would remember :P). It was over a year ago though.
So I figured out who DoorHandle is via super-mod-powarz. It's not @AlexA., surprisingly... but I see you, person who it is, who is also currently in this room. :P
There are quite a large number of prime generating functions. Pretty much all of them are constructed and are based on the sieve of Eratosthenes, the Möbius function or the Wilson's theorem and are generally infeasible to compute in practice. But there are also generators, that have a very easy s...
@jrenk I don't normally golf in PHP so I'm not too sure, but we've had answers like Python + PIL (an imaging library) since Python itself doesn't have great support for image output
Right now we're using the standard +5/-2 for questions and +10/-2 for answers. However, this site is different from the trilogy and most other SE sites: coming up with a question generally takes more effort. I believe the value of questions:answers here is higher than on other sites.
How about w...
I think I had trouble getting Fueue's C interpreter working. Haven't tried the Haskell/OCaml ones
The other one I was thinking of was Emmental, but I managed to get one of the other interpreters working in the end (or was there more? will ping if I find them again)
I've got an idea for a fun (!) challenge but it would be a little different from the ones I normally see on this site. The challenge would be to come up with an algorithm that solves the problem the best way and to implement it in code, which I would estimate taking a day or two to work on. The w...
Stop! Stand right where you are!
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Challenge
Write a function which takes one parameter t. Your function has to stop your program for t seconds before continuing, similar to time.sleep(t) in Python and WAIT t in BBC BASIC.
You must not use any built in waiting functions and y...
Recursive ASCII Spirals
code-golf ascii-art
In the great tradition of ASCII Art Challenges on this site, here's another one. Given an input, draw a spiral. Simple, yeah? Yeah...
(Inspired by the ASCII Dragons Curve post, and Optimizer's ASCII Art of the Day posts)
Input
Input will be in the ...
For multiple recent questions, people have wanted to close a question because the question was too narrow - not enough variety of potential answers to make it interesting.
Those questions were: Sign that word!, , and Fibonacci in +!()[]script.
The desire for such a close reason has come up befo...
Stop! Stand right where you are!
popularity-contest
Challenge
Write a function which takes one parameter t. Your function has to stop your program for t seconds before continuing, similar to time.sleep(t) in Python and WAIT t in BBC BASIC.
You must not use any built in waiting functions and y...
Recursive ASCII Spirals
code-golf ascii-art
In the great tradition of ASCII Art Challenges on this site, here's another one. Given an input, draw a spiral. Simple, yeah? Yeah...
(Inspired by the ASCII Dragons Curve post, and Optimizer's ASCII Art of the Day posts)
Input
Input will be in the ...
