[LMB] AKICIF: touch typing

[Sylvus Tarn]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 22:13 -0800, James wrote:

> In Vim:
> 
> In command mode (or just <Esc> to be sure), navigate to one corner of
> rectangular area, Ctrl-Q (Windows) or Ctrl-V (other OS), navigate to
> diagonally opposite corner, command ('y' to yank, 'I' to insert before
> block, 'A' to insert after block, 'x' to delete, 'r' to replace
> everything in block with a character, '~' to change case, etc).

I have no doubt if the wizard had said to learn vi, I would've been just
as happy learning that;)
> 
> ('v' in command mode takes you to "visual" mode,
but he doesn't care for the mode scheme in vi, so I ended up learning
emacs instead.
> 
> And why Ctrl-Q on Windows? 
Who knows?  I'm so glad I don't use that OS anymore.
> 
> I just seem to pick it up easily.
Now, that, I can*not* say.
> 
> The most interesting times are had when you're using a terminal whose
> only forms of cursor control is the backspace (^H) character, aka the
> dumb-tty. Editing one line at a time gets interesting since your
> history buffer gets really confusing since navigating to a new line
> means printing it out, scrolling your last line up one. (Effectively,
> you have a 1 line high edit window). You won't see it in the GUI versions,
> but over a telnet/ssh session, ugh.

Hmph.  I've actually used emacs over ssh, though not often and not
easily.  Even just standard CLI unix commands over ssh can generate some
odd wraps, but I've actually been using them long enough that I prefer
it to gui methods I gather exist for uploading files (e.g. for the
website, which is the usual reason I'm doing this.  My business partner
can't cope at all, so her geeky housemate is supposed to be finding a
gui equivalent for her site, which features a lot of joint work: the
reason so many files originate with me is because I do the photography
for both sites.)

>  (These days,
> I guess if I'm forced to use Emacs, I should look at viper mode. I
> suppose besides being practically it's own OS, it has to have vi keys
> of its own!).

Well, there you go:)  One of the reasons the wizard likes perl is that
it provides so many alternate ways of doing things, which is a
relatively prevalent philosophy in the open source world.  It makes for
those pesky learning curves I found so frustrating early on, but overall
is a great benefit.

sylvus tarn
http://rejiquar.com