Re: Viper: replacing text?

[Anselm Helbig]

At Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:51:22 -0700 (PDT),
Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3 Set, 23:53, Lennart Borgman
> > Someone may say I am wrong since " and P requires shift on most
> > keyboards so it is really 10 in Viper...
> >
> > The real advantage with the Viper keys is in my opinion perhaps that
> > you use the keyboard keys you reach very fast, ie normal letters. At
> > least for me reaching Control and Meta is a bit slower.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> >
> > However in the beginning getting used to the vi modal editing is a bit
> > hard.
> 
> I think the trick is: you should always be in Viper mode. Whenever you
> enter Insert mode to enter text, you should hit Esc as soon as
> possible. And swap that useless Caps Lock with Esc ;-)

Nah, the leftmost key on the home row should always be bound to
Control. You can use C-[ for ESC. 8-)


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