Weekly Vim Focus: Week 2<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\twith 3 comments<\/a><\/p>\n\t\n\t\n\t\tWeek 1<\/a> of my vim productivity boosting experiment went well. During the week most of the commands I aimed for ended up being used often.
\nI got a lot of helpful comments, both here and on\u00a0Hacker News<\/a>. I ended up unmapping my arrow keys, and I do feel like this made a difference, I am now comfortable with those keys. As a bonus, it feels a lot more natural using hjkl in compound movement commands than it did with the arrow keys.<\/p>\nThis week I will focus on repeating previously issued commands. Since 4 at a time worked well for me last time, I will stick to that number.<\/p>\n
\n.<\/code> repeats the last edit<\/li>\ngv<\/code> marks the previous visual mark<\/li>\n&<\/code> repeats a substitution<\/li>\n@:<\/code> repeats a command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFor next week I will go through the comments and pick the ones I found most useful in there.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
\n\t\t\n\t\t\tWritten by Thomas <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t21.02.2012 at 12:22<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
\n\t\t\tPosted in Coding<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\tTagged with coding<\/a>, editing<\/a>, productivity<\/a>, vim<\/a>, weekly vim focus<\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\tWeekly Vim Focus<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\twith 24 comments<\/a><\/p>\n\t\n\t\n\t\tI’m a long time user of vim, but sometimes I feel I have retained some bad habits<\/a>\u00a0from when I first started using it, or that I am stagnating in my skills. Sure, I learn a new trick every now and then, but most of them I tend to forget again. So I am going to pick a few commands, and make an effort to stick to them consciously for a week. Hopefully. they will make it into my permanent repertoire\u00a0that way. Depending on how well this goes, I might make a series out of it.<\/p>\nHere’s what I am going for this week:<\/p>\n
\n- use c for change instead of deleting and then going to insert mode<\/li>\n
- use ctrl-O to jump to the previous location (I just found out<\/a> this also works across buffers)<\/li>\n
- use ctrl-R to paste registers in insert mode<\/li>\n
- use hjkl instead of arrow keys for navigation. (this is a big one, tried it before, and failed. But it makes a lot of sense to keep the fingers on home row as much as possible. Might go as far as remapping the arrow keys to force myself to do this.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Seems like a short enough list to be tractable. More to come next week if I find this approach to be helpful.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
\n\t\t\n\t\t\tWritten by Thomas <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t9.02.2012 at 10:41<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
\n\t\t\tPosted in Coding<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\tTagged with coding<\/a>, editing<\/a>, productivity<\/a>, vim<\/a>, weekly vim focus<\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Week 1<\/a> of my vim productivity boosting experiment went well. During the week most of the commands I aimed for ended up being used often. This week I will focus on repeating previously issued commands. Since 4 at a time worked well for me last time, I will stick to that number.<\/p>\n For next week I will go through the comments and pick the ones I found most useful in there.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t Written by Thomas <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t 21.02.2012 at 12:22<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t Posted in Coding<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t Tagged with coding<\/a>, editing<\/a>, productivity<\/a>, vim<\/a>, weekly vim focus<\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n with 24 comments<\/a><\/p>\n\t\n\t I’m a long time user of vim, but sometimes I feel I have retained some bad habits<\/a>\u00a0from when I first started using it, or that I am stagnating in my skills. Sure, I learn a new trick every now and then, but most of them I tend to forget again. So I am going to pick a few commands, and make an effort to stick to them consciously for a week. Hopefully. they will make it into my permanent repertoire\u00a0that way. Depending on how well this goes, I might make a series out of it.<\/p>\n Here’s what I am going for this week:<\/p>\n Seems like a short enough list to be tractable. More to come next week if I find this approach to be helpful.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t Written by Thomas <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t 9.02.2012 at 10:41<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t Posted in Coding<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t Tagged with coding<\/a>, editing<\/a>, productivity<\/a>, vim<\/a>, weekly vim focus<\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nI got a lot of helpful comments, both here and on\u00a0Hacker News<\/a>. I ended up unmapping my arrow keys, and I do feel like this made a difference, I am now comfortable with those keys. As a bonus, it feels a lot more natural using hjkl in compound movement commands than it did with the arrow keys.<\/p>\n\n
.<\/code> repeats the last edit<\/li>\ngv<\/code> marks the previous visual mark<\/li>\n&<\/code> repeats a substitution<\/li>\n@:<\/code> repeats a command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWeekly Vim Focus<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t
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