My experiance from first 2 weeks with Vim and arrow keys is that its going to be hard to not to use them. Some suggest to disable them to force yourself get a hang on hjkl keys. But I have 2 issues with those: 1) not all software has Vim key bindings so inevitably, similar functionality in other software makes it difficult to completely adapt.
2) moving cursor in insert mode: i use hjkl in normal mode, i quickly escape - move with hjkl - i. .... But sometimes, I need to do several changes of single characters very close to each other, a word to the right, a line below... And all that 3 to 5 times. Escaping, moving, then hitting i to go to insert, insert single character, escape again... It is slow. I tend to do fast moves in insert mode using arrows, as hjkl doesnt work there.
P.s. and yes, I already started trying to exit Chromium with :q. ;)
My experiance from first 2 weeks with Vim and arrow keys is that its going to be hard to not to use them. Some suggest to disable them to force yourself get a hang on hjkl keys. But I have 2 issues with those: 1) not all software has Vim key bindings so inevitably, similar functionality in other software makes it difficult to completely adapt.
2) moving cursor in insert mode: i use hjkl in normal mode, i quickly escape - move with hjkl - i. .... But sometimes, I need to do several changes of single characters very close to each other, a word to the right, a line below... And all that 3 to 5 times. Escaping, moving, then hitting i to go to insert, insert single character, escape again... It is slow. I tend to do fast moves in insert mode using arrows, as hjkl doesnt work there.
P.s. and yes, I already started trying to exit Chromium with :q. ;)
Your point is valid here.
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