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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 19:36:25 JST nixCraft 🐧

   pretty cool way to remember vim motions for #linux or #unix users

   • HoracioDos (horaciodos@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 19:53:58 JST HoracioDos

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     @nixCraft I'll get all the hate for this comment, but I will never understand why some people love an editor that needs years to master.

   • Bob Thomson (bobthomson70@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 19:58:39 JST Bob Thomson

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     @nixCraft i think this may have been easier for me as I grew up with the ZX Spectrum cursor keys row :) 5678 instead of hjkl

   • LuckyStoat (luckystoat@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 20:08:16 JST LuckyStoat

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     @nixCraft
     For me, I tried remembering them as diagonals rather than individual directions. Left and right are easy because their position matched the direction (despite L meaning right)

   • Iznogoud (iznogoud@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 20:19:51 JST Iznogoud

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     @nixCraft muscle memory: put your middle finger on the embossed key at the right side of the keyboard and everything else falls into place.

   • words_number (words_number@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 21:40:07 JST words_number

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     @nixCraft It always annoyed me a lot that J and K aren't switched. In all programming languages I've ever heard of, the start of a line is left and the start of a file is top, so movement to the right (keys K and L) should be considered movement further towards the end of the file (down, right).

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 21:59:46 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     "Heave Left" -- nice to know Vim has a command for what to do as you are about to have an "involuntary proteins spill" as the late George Carlin put it.