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Discussion on: Vim: from foe to friend in 9 minutes

 
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Omer Hamerman

Hey Vic,

Basically I agree with the last 2 statements. With the first one not fully but I can only send you to the docs where you may find something I didn't say :)

About the "problem" with moving out of Vim, I agree but you'd be surprised to know that since Vim is deeply integrated a long time into any *nix system it's convention keys can be found almost anywhere. Even modern mail clients like SuperHuman integrated Vim shortcuts by default...

Personally I use the same for everything, even my MacOS desktops are configured to switch with Vim hjkl.

Another example is the terminal which can be set with set -o vi to provide Vim motions within the lines.

The same goes for IDEs obviously and many more...

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Vic Seedoubleyew

Thanks again very much for taking the time to clear things out for me. I really feel lucky to receive such guidance.

One crucial point for me is the ability to use Google Docs and Gmail. I tried looking online but so far haven't found any really good solution. VimAnywhere seems to be good for short non-formatted input fields, but not very convenient with Google Docs.

Would you by any chance have something to suggest?

Thanks a lot again!