On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Sam Bituser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for their replies. I will try to answer your questions > and clarify some things. > > I have been able to touch type with eight fingers at 100wpm for a long > time now so I am fine in that respect. Once I understand how a certain > command works I find it quite easy to commit to muscle memory. > > I'm quite happy to learn and use vimscript if you believe that is the way > to go. By "when I know what I am doing" I am in fact referring to my > understanding of certain commands in particular situations e.g. using v or > V when selecting text. If I already know the command it is much faster and > I am happier in vim. > > Some of the things that frustrate me the most in vim are: > > Copying and pasting text from outside of the editor. E.g. modifying an > HTML page by swapping odd bits of text from another document. It just feels > clunky to me and I often find myself using eclipse instead. > > If I have an class that I want to call a method of I generally like to > know what the overloads are and the order of the parameters. I've got used > to using intellisense in VS. I don't know if it just laziness that I would > like it or if people normally require it or not. > > "Peeking" at files real quick seems like a lot of work. Normally I do > vsplit :o file.ext them Ctrl w w to change to the split, take a quick look > and :q. This problem normally arises when browsing an unfamiliar repo. I > have NERDtree but I don't think I'm using it enough. This is where the > mouse and eclipse come in. I tend to move through a tree of files faster > with a mouse. > > (I do apologise if I replied incorrectly. I've read the rules, but I am > new to mailing lists!) > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > I can only address the first two. First, for pasting into vim* from outside, I have found CTRL-r in insert mode really improves my flow. (I used to just use the standard "+gp constantly to get text into vim, and, honestly, it was a long-time sticking point for me in getting at all productive.) :h i_CTRL-R Actually, CTRL-R has also made my pasting within vim much faster and more fluid, since I tend to use registers a lot. (Where others would use macros, abbreviations, etc.) As for selecting in vim, I am starting to use text objects more and more. :h text-objects But most of the time just entering visual mode and searching to what I want, with /foo, does the trick. HTH *gVIM throughout, on Windows at work, on Linux at home. -- -Collision http://twitter.com/cfCollision | http://clearthecrease.blogspot.com/ | http://noheadlineaudiozine.com/ -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
