I'm not saying to have it hit you in the face every time you launch VIM. Have a mode where you can do exploration. Can't say it'd be aping a visual interface, though; informational messages have been in text interfaces from the beginning. Vim already has this functionality with command-line mode with the Ctrl-d chord and tab-completion.
The windows keyboard accelerator kludge is essential for my gui experience in Windows and Linux X-Windows. I wouldn't use a visual OS without it. I was often annoyed at the MacOS whenever I used it because you had to use the mouse for many things. But that's another topic. -Brian Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
