> I've been using VIM for the past three years and have seen my
> vocabulary of commands increase steadily. It's amazing how with
> three or four key strokes I can do stuff that would take me
> minutes in dumb text editors or smart editors that I am not
> fluent with. I was reminded of my experience with another
> windows application (Excel) where I can hit
> <Alt>-e-s-e-v-<Enter>, for instance, to paste transposed values
> from source cells. No "chord" is necessary here by the way.
I actually hate this "feature". This "feature" is kludge to a
visual interface to make it appear to be a keyboard interface.
The designer of the "feature" was merely aping the keyboard
interface without any essential understanding of keyboard
interfaces.
> ***I learned that by hitting the keys one at a time and looking
> to see what my options were from where I was.*** The Alt key
> highlights the menu bar, e opens the edit bar where I see Paste
> Special has the accelerator key of s. The Paste Special dialog
> comes up with accelerator keys e for transpose and v for values
> and finally Enter for finish the command.
>
> Can we do this with VIM? If I press the g key, I'd like to see
> a listing in an unobtrusive place of what other keys would
> accomplish following it. I believe this would greatly
> accelerate the learning of commands in VIM, thus its adoption by
> new users.
>
> I didn't find any similar feature request from my cursory
> search. What do you think?
--Suresh
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