At present, I am far from loving using vim mode. I use it because I must: it's the only way to shake down subtle bugs and to get the true feel for the code.
I thought that using vim (for real) for a week or so might make me more comfortable with it. Not yet. True, some aspects of vim are becoming a little less unbearable, but I still feel like I am carrying extra weight when using vim mode. The constant struggle to remember what mode I am in is unpleasant. Worse, this struggle carries over to non-modal editors such as the one I use to create this post. Every once in awhile I start to wonder whether what mode I am in! It stops me momentarily, and saps my energy. It totally sucks. One last hope appeared yesterday. I call it vim trainer mode. The idea appeared to me as follows. As I was thinking about my difficulties migrating to the vim way, I saw that I was using Leo's arrow keys and the mouse to move around the body pane and to select text. This pulls my hand from the keyboard, and makes it even less likely to use the vim-like ways: h, j, k, l, and other more complex cursor movement and selection commands. So the Aha is this: @bool vim_trainer = True (or :toggle-vim-training-mode) will enter vim trainer mode. In this mode, Leo will prevent mouse clicks from moving the cursor. (For sanity, mouse clicks will still select various widgets). vim-training mode will also disable the operation of all arrow keys, with the possible exception of Alt-arrow keys: maybe gt will move focus to the tree. In short, vim-trainer mode will force me to use vim-mode like experienced vim users do. This is the last best hope for me ;-) Edward P.S. Vim-trainer mode will be dead easy to do. P.P.S. Vim-trainer mode is clever because it is the opposite approach to what one might expect. Imo, vim itself would benefit from this mode ;-) EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
