On Apr 7, 9:44 pm, Duane Johnson duane.john...@gmail.com 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
to this approach
On Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 07:28:22 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote:
Yeah, thinking about it, it looks like we're once more against the
conservative = progressive theories of learning (Reminds me of a
recent comment I gave on one of Paul Krugman's NYT blog articles).
and Charlie Kester replied:
On Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 16:12:10 PDT John Little wrote:
On Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 07:28:22 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote:
Yeah, thinking about it, it looks like we're once more against the
conservative = progressive theories of learning (Reminds me of a
recent comment I gave on one of Paul Krugman's
Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 08/04/10 12:49, John Little wrote:
On Apr 8, 2:44 pm, Duane Johnsonduane.john...@gmail.com wrote:
When I learned to touch type in high school...
...practice those ones over and over again...
I think you're swimming against the strengths of vim. In vim if you
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:49 AM, John Little john.b.lit...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you're swimming against the strengths of vim. In vim if you
find yourself doing something over and over again you stop and find a
better way, at the least record a macro.
That's it, I totally agree!
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On Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 17:58:08 PDT Pedro Henrique Linhares wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:49 AM, John Little [1]john.b.lit...@gmail.com
wrote:
I think you're swimming against the strengths of vim. In vim if you
find yourself doing something over and over again you stop and find a
On Apr 8, 2:44 pm, Duane Johnson duane.john...@gmail.com wrote:
When I learned to touch type in high school...
...practice those ones over and over again...
I think you're swimming against the strengths of vim. In vim if you
find yourself doing something over and over again you stop and
Thanks for your insights, Tony. I think these will be particularly
useful to an intermediate Vim user, although diving in to these
resources as a beginner certainly won't hurt.
I think what I'm looking for is something like vimtutor, but just
slanted a little more toward developing
On 08/04/10 12:49, John Little wrote:
On Apr 8, 2:44 pm, Duane Johnsonduane.john...@gmail.com wrote:
When I learned to touch type in high school...
...practice those ones over and over again...
I think you're swimming against the strengths of vim. In vim if you
find yourself doing
ĵaŭ, 08 Apr 2010, Duane Johnson skribis:
Thanks for your insights, Tony. I think these will be particularly
useful to an intermediate Vim user, although diving in to these
resources as a beginner certainly won't hurt.
I think what I'm looking for is something like vimtutor, but just
Hi Duane!
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Duane Johnson duane.john...@gmail.comwrote:
I think what I'm looking for is something like vimtutor, but just
slanted a little more toward developing muscle-memory. I want a solid
base of knowing that w goes to the next word, and that h means
left
On 08/04/10 14:14, Duane Johnson wrote:
Thanks for your insights, Tony. I think these will be particularly
useful to an intermediate Vim user, although diving in to these
resources as a beginner certainly won't hurt.
I think what I'm looking for is something like vimtutor, but just
slanted a
On 08/04/10 16:28, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
[...]
And sorry about the double post: SMTP is giving me trouble recently.
Best regards,
Tony.
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CONCORDE: Message for you, sir.
He falls forward revealing the arrow with the note.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail PYTHON (MONTY)
I just want to add that in my view, the best way to practice with Vim
interface is to open a file with code you're currently working on and do
all the same tasks as you would normally do as you work.. with one tiny
difference: instead of focusing on your task, focus on vim operations
you're
AK wrote:
and do all the same tasks as you would normally do as you work.. with
one tiny difference: instead of focusing on your task, focus on vim
operations you're using, pause for a second and think which commands
you could have used, what's the most efficient / easy way to do
something,
On 4/8/10 8:14 AM, Duane Johnson wrote:
Thanks for your insights, Tony. I think these will be particularly
useful to an intermediate Vim user, although diving in to these
resources as a beginner certainly won't hurt.
I think what I'm looking for is something like vimtutor, but just
slanted a
On 08/04/10 12:49, John Little wrote:
I think you're swimming against the strengths of vim. In vim if you
find yourself doing something over and over again you stop and find a
better way, at the least record a macro.
and Tony replied:
Yeah, thinking about it, it looks like we're once
On Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 07:28:22 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote:
Yeah, thinking about it, it looks like we're once more against the
conservative = progressive theories of learning (Reminds me of a
recent comment I gave on one of Paul Krugman's NYT blog articles).
Tony, I found your pejorative use
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
to this approach over simply stumbling through the process of learning
to type. The
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 muscle memory. I think there was a real advantage
to this approach over simply stumbling through
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