10 mo. ago • 95%

being a brazilian helps learn vim motions

image description:
"epic handshake" meme format with left arm superimposed with the text "Brazilians", whilst right one with "novice vim users"
on top of handshake, text reads "kkkkk".

for those who don't get it: Brazilians(maybe other Portuguese speakers too?) use "kkkkkk" or "rsrsrs" in texting to indicate laugh, similar to "haha".

pressing "k" in vim(in normal mode) makes the cursor go one line up. for efficient navigation, a number before a navigation key(h,j,k,l) can be used. e.g.: 10k to go 10 lines up.

also, "relative line numbers" might be a setting you may wish to turn on in case you need to jump several lines up.
you can also use Ctrl+d, Ctrl+u(or their full page counterparts Ctrl+f, Ctrl+b for quick navigation, but that's a tip for some other day. :)

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When i edit my massive monolith codefiles:

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- then those Ctrl shortcuts I mentioned are for you, friend.
  they'll help you move very quickly one you get used to them.
  
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Wow, using h j k l to navigate in vi takes me back to last century.

As long as I can remember vim has been navigating via the cursor keys...

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- cursor keys? you mean arrow keys? i'm pretty sure both work, although hjkl is in home row if you care about that
  
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  perhaps he worked on ADM-3A, which had hjkl double as arrow keys(and upon which vi was made).
  
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Um, you probably should remove this post. KKK means something very different in the US

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- Fuck the USA government.
  
  edited: added the word "government".
  
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  Well I don't really care what you think of the us but you should avoid posting racist content. Its likely unintentional but you could offend someone.
  
  This isn't unique to the us. You should consider removing content that is racist or promoting a terrorist organization.
  
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