App to help with Deliberate Practice / Mavis Beacon Teaches Vim?

complish this? Thank you, Duane Johnson [1] (PDF) http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracticePR93.pdf [2] http://www.openeducation.net/2008/11/02/deliberate-practice-%E2%80%93-where-self-reflection-work-ethic-and-ambition-meet/ -- You received this message from the "vim_

Re: App to help with Deliberate Practice / Mavis Beacon Teaches Vim?

41 pm, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 08/04/10 04:44, Duane Johnson wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > When I learned to touch type in high school, we used an application > > similar to "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" that drilled character > > sequences into my mu

Command aliases?

cmap vimrc e ~/.vimrc I also found this plugin [1] but I'd first assume that what I'm trying to do is fairly basic, and probably does not require a plugin. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Duane Johnson [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=746 -- You

Re: Command aliases?

Wow, that's great! Thanks, and to others who have responded (Matt, Gary, John, sc). I'm already starting to appreciate Vim. Regards, Duane On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Ralf wrote: Open your .vimrc, press mV (uppercase!), close it. The next time press 'V to open .vimrc. see :h mark hth

Starting vim with a fullscreen vertically split view

ws is not cascading the update event. Is there a way to get around this, or is this a MacVim / gVim bug? Thanks, Duane Johnson -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit

Re: Starting vim with a fullscreen vertically split view

On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13, Duane Johnson wrote: So I saw a neat Vim demo with a vertically split screen where the programmer was doing test-driven development by coding tests on one side and production code on the other. I thought, "Wouldn&#x

Re: App to help with Deliberate Practice / Mavis Beacon Teaches Vim?

On Apr 7, 9:44 pm, Duane Johnson wrote: > Hi All, > > When I learned to touch type in high school, we used an application > similar to "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" that drilled character > sequences into my muscle memory.  I think there was a real advantage >

A 'visible within the window' range?

So the % symbol is a special range that means 'the whole file'. Is there a similar special symbol that means 'what is visible in the window'? For example, say I can see three instances of the word 'abracadabra' on the screen. I want to change them to 'wizard' but don't want to affect an

Re: A 'visible within the window' range?

Thanks for the explanations! Duane On Apr 27, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Tim Chase wrote: On 04/27/2010 06:36 PM, AK wrote: On 04/27/2010 07:22 PM, Duane Johnson wrote: So the % symbol is a special range that means 'the whole file'. Is there a similar special symbol that means 'wha

Re: A 'visible within the window' range?

On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Jürgen Krämer wrote: cmap * (getcmdpos() == 1) ? line('w0') . ',' . line('w$') : '*' Even better! I, too, have a scrolloff option set (like James Cole mentioned) and so this solution works perfectly for me. Thanks Jürgen. Regards, Duane -- You received t