Spyke
lemmy.world

Vim keybindings aren't memorization as much as they are muscle memory.

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So true- I was talking to someone about vim the other day and wanted to tell them the keybinding for something I use daily, but had no idea what it was without a keyboard there for reference.

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ttrpg.network

That's not an array, that's a string.
Someone is converting an array to a string and is using that as key.

A lot of languages could do it, and none of them should.

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Every LAN party has at least one public FTP available that is called "my ass" and at least one person yells "Put that in my ass!".

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PlexSheepreply
feddit.de

It's not so Bad if you don't develope plugins. And vimscript is still there

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I love Lua. Can I do anything useful with it?

I don't know a language. Some sort of decision freeze. I've tried Lua, C#, Linux BASH, and Java. I went from learning C# to homelabbing proxmox. I have more success learning IT stuff.

Also I haven't used Vim or Emacs, but I used to rebind ALL of my keys in every game I played. I deeply love keybinding and using the keyboard rather than the mouse.

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This is still my favourite vim-related meme. So fucking funny

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infosec.pub

This feels like me, especially when I have six different splits in a full screen terminal screen between vim and tmux and someone asks how I'm doing that.

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I work primarily in tmux and even in an IT department, people regularly say something along the lines of "woah are you hacking?"

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At times, I've also juggled (in addition to vim and tmux) hotkeys for my current tiling WM of choice and extra hotkeys to swap between machines via barrier. I'm not sure how I'm able remember what I had for breakfast, much less someone's name.

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lemmygrad.ml

I prefer the version of this meme where he tries to :q! the conversation by saying it

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feddit.de

I have no idea what this is about but I love the meme template.

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MajorHavocreply
lemmy.world

You may enjoy Vim Adventures to get some context - and it's pretty fun. It teaches the wild and powerful keybindings for the Vim text editor, but in the form of an online typing game.

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sh.itjust.works

Vim Adventures is cool, but you can't get very far into it without a subscription. PacVim is free and also effective at teaching some Vim commands.

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lemmy.ml

Speaking of, can anyone recommend an AutoHotKey alternative for Linux on Wayland?

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lemmy.world

That meme's been on the front page every day for the last week. Did karma farming bots make their way here?

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lemmy.world

Had this been emacs it would have been funny. But with Vim you don't remember key bindings. Vim has operations and motions. Few od each and they are combined.

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My point was that Vim has motions and operations. So there's really no "keybindings" as such. But am considering keybindings to be combination of Meta, Alt, Ctrl keys with something and Emacs has a lot of those. Not sure about the self-documenting part as I've never extensively used it. Perhaps I should have chosen Eclipse as an example.

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Hausreply
kbin.social

100% agree. Emacs macros take much more space.

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wewbullreply
feddit.uk

...but we have org-mode so we can take notes about things like friends and family.

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Vim/Neovim has orgmode too, these days 🤪

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I felt a pang of regret in reading this - about the grain of truth for it in my life.

I've filed that pang of regret in an appropriate text file for consideration later.

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mander.xyz

It's only like that when you've learned them recently. Now I need to learn Rust. You also have to remember a ton of shortcuts in many GUI editors.

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That's why i like command pallets. Just fuzzy search the command, and if you do the action a lot bind a key combination.

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I don't understand why you hate seeing the same meme twice. Also I don't think I ever saw it on lemmy. I don't think it's a meme that's reposted all over, because I haven't seen it on Reddit either and only saw it for the first time when specifically searching for vim memes. If I see a meme more than once and it's a good meme, I enjoy it. Why do you not do the same?

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