bellsDoSing , 1 month ago

Have you ever learned about the following in VIM:

• H, M, L, 22H, …,: vertical cursor placement
• zt, z0, zb: vertical scroll positioning
• 0, $, gm, gM: horizontal cursor placement
• w, e, b: word based cursor movement

Simply holding j or k at times also works, even more so with a decently high key repeat rate.

Of course there’s a lot more: vimhelp.org/motion.txt.html

The trick is to only learn a couple new movement mappings at a time and use them during one’s workflow for a while, up until they feel ingrained. Then repeat, iteratively building up one’s movement skills in VIM.

One can say many things about VIM, but not that learning it’s movement mappings will make your required APM (let alone mouse clicks) go up to “get stuff done”. Honestly, once a basic set of these movements has been learned, any other editor without them will feel like a drag.