On 2013-05-13 02:57, Alice Wonder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 17:11 -0700, DwigtArmyOfChampions wrote:
> > OK, I know what the "bad habits" are, since they've been disabled
> > (hjkl, backspace, and a few other things)
>
> I didn't know those were bad habits.
I think it's not that they're bad habits, just that it's easy to use
them in ways that occlude better/faster ways. Rather than pressing
"h" 20 times, you might mean
- "I want to go 20 characters to the left", in which case it would
benefit you to learn "20h"
- "I want to go to column 18", in which case using "18|" will jump
you right there
- "I want to go back a couple words and position myself at the
beginning of a word", in which case using "b" or "B" a couple
times, or prefixing it with a count may be a better way to move
- "I want to move the cursor to right after the opening paren", in
which case using "T(" is pretty targeted.
I could likely count on one hand the number of times in the past year
that I've used h/l for left/right navigation, and it's almost never
more than one or two presses. Vertical navigation with j/k tends to
be more frequent for me, as I often use that to mark my line when I'm
reading/reviewing.
-tim
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