> 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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