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GNU nano 8.0 Released with New Options and Various Improvements (9to5linux.com)

submitted 6 months ago by leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The worst and best thing you can do when using vim is learn the movement keys (h, j, k, and l) because they're so powerful and work no where else.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

There is a vim mode available in a lot of other applications though.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

h and l are overrated, use w, b, e and f instead.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And leap.nvim

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, doesn't work so well when you're not using qwerty though

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's not true. I'm on qwertz and I adore vim key bindings

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Okay, perhaps I should have been clearer, that's on me.

I meant qwerty and related layouts.

Things like Dvorak and Colemak, the movement keys are spread across the keyboard and if you want to navigate that way you'll pretty much have to remap them, and probably remap the keys you've swapped. For me, it's just easier to use the arrows than go through that.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, of course. Vims default keys are made for the "regular" layouts. But you can Mal everything yourself if needed. I'm sure there are pre made mappings for other layouts too.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I might check that out

Using the arrows may not be the most efficient, but I'm not spending enough time in vim to make that be an issue... Though I've seriously considered trying to swap to it from VSCode

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago

I do pretty much all editing in vim. One you "force" yourself to use hjkl, there was no going back to arrow keys. Nowadays I Mal arrow keys to move lines up and down and add or remove indentation.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Untrue, they also work in Nethack and other rogue-likes!