Touchtyping (was Re: [Gllug] bash / go to beginning of line)

[Bruce Richardson]

On 2/21/02, 11:42:26 AM, "Wulf Forrester-Barker" <wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk> 
wrote regarding Re: Touchtyping (was Re: [Gllug] bash / go to beginning of 
line):


> I can also see the advantages of then being able to use my touch typing
> skills to build a vocabulary of other keyboard movement commands ( w, b,
> $, ^, etc...).

There is a very simple syntax for most Vi commands (essentially, [number 
of iterations]action[movement]).  So to delete the next two words is 2dw, 
while to delete to the end of the line is d$ and delete this line and the 
next 3 is 3dj and so on.  The other useful rule is that the uppercase 
version of a command usually does the reverse of the lowercase one (where 
this is intuitive and convenient), so f finds the next instance of a 
character to the right and F to the left.  U is used to uppercase 
characters while u is used to lowercase them (makes sense once you think 
about it).  Know that and you can quickly make use of new commands.

-- 

Bruce

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