@ids1024 Great, now do EMACS!

@ids1024 Straight facts.

@ids1024 VI!! OMG vi! I love vi .. I’ve used it for decades!!!

@ids1024 I forgot what the key is for swearing.

@ids1024 Thank you for this magical cheat sheet. This once and for all proves that vi is the best editor through space and time! Amen!

:wq!

This is good.

@ids1024 is this to clean the bathroom or kitchen sink?

@ids1024 sounds like a great app for The Long Earth. #baxter #pratchett

@ids1024 is there a key rewriting elisp into vim script?

@ids1024 you just like APL, admit it

@ids1024

Wow, they've added a lot of cool new features since I last used vim.

@ids1024
See?
Easier than learning emacs!

@ids1024 grass

@ids1024

I've forgotten the key sequence for 'engage warp drive'

@ids1024 What if I just want to enter a Git commit message without accidentally summoning anything from the underworld?

@ids1024 How to exit:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1602652648620040192

@ids1024 for the people without without η and λ on their keyboard, g+ and g- are other ways to move forward and backward in time (try it! do and undo a few actions, do new things, and then navigate through time!)

@ids1024 As opposed to emacs where only the most stalwart (or foolhardy?) type M-x wake-the-sleeping-mad-god-who-slumbers-in-the-deep :)

@ids1024 This literally made me lough out loud.

@ids1024

Dang it, I *knew* that vim has some crazy features I never knew about.

As long as I don't get a computer with a Greek (or Norse rune??) keyboard, I should be ok. *phew*

@ids1024 rofl. Love it! But what if you're using a traditional chinese keyboard?

@ids1024 idkfa.

@ids1024 yep that’s #vim all right

@ids1024 Incorrect, the default bindings for forward/backward in time is g+ and g-

This is not a joke. 🙂

@ids1024 I'm always a little stressed when I'm editing in #vim because I'm afraid I'll type one of these keybindings by mistake and break the universe 🤷‍♀️😹

@ids1024 Vim is like Street Fighter II. You can use it without knowing every move.

@ids1024 The cool thing about vim is you don’t need to learn too many of its commands to be useful. There are a lot of arcane commands that are really useful if you know them, but not at all essential.

@ids1024 Ever tried vi on a VT-100? Loads of fun 🙂

@ids1024 I love the paleo-hebrew letter in there 😄

@ids1024 oh the things we did

@ids1024 If vim was written in APL:

@ids1024 surprisingly accurate and wrong at the same time

@ids1024 as if we needed further truth that Vim is the correct choice :blobcatsmug:

@ids1024

Come to Mastodon for the nano, you end up getting the vim.

@ids1024

In all seriousness I found Vim Adventures useful when building muscle memory for vim

https://vim-adventures.com/

(FYI there are free levels before you hit a paywall, I ended up staying the free space as they account for the 20% you use 80% of the time there.)

@ids1024 I hesitate to ask what α and Ω are bound to.

@ids1024 ah ah ah same sensation here

@ids1024 -1EX$$ #TECO

@ids1024 But you do know where h / l / j / k came from?

@ids1024 Frankly I think vi missed an opportunity when they didn't making exiting an even more obscure and long-winded set of keystrokes.

Hotel vi, the editor you can enter, but never leave.

@ids1024 you do realize that there's an emacs mode for all of that, right?

@ids1024 nano for the win. If i need an advanced editor, I'll fire up vscode via a remote ssh session. I just don't understand the appeal of all the complexity required to operate that editor.

@ids1024 does the nightly support Elbereth yet?

@ids1024

@ids1024 Imagine encountering vim for the first time on a mountaintop at 3 am, guided by an impatient professor.
I would have worn out the ᛄ key if I had this list back then…

@ids1024 I didn't know I was practicing the dark arts...

@ids1024

And this is before we even get to the good bits of combining commands.
:3λ7𐤉! – step backwards and forwards in time while unconditionally supplicating your chosen deity 7 times for each temporal point.

@ids1024

oddly enough, also the shortcuts for doing the same thing in rogue

@ids1024 to unlock VIMs real power, use this simple set up

@ids1024 That last one is a lie. 😉

@ids1024 and :! for cast magic spell 🧙‍♂️

@ids1024 right, so I just need to configure my keyboard with sufficient input layers, and memorise the layouts. Problem is, I don't think my keyboard has enough RAM. Will stick with Emacs.

@ids1024 I've never exited VIM without googling it first. Never once. In years.

@ids1024 Only #Emacs keybindings are more powerful 😜

@ids1024 Feels like you mixed up APL and Vim 😀

@ids1024 I think I need a new keyboard.

@ids1024
∞ - Who knows what it does, but we know it takes a really, really long time to do it.

@ids1024 @peter That’s what I keep telling people, it’s only a tiny bit harder than emacs

@ids1024 Some of these spells need to be enforced by adding an exclamation mark.

I tried IDDQD and but doesn't work. IDKFA is useless too.

@ids1024 Sorry, just tried it. It doesn't work. :q does not exit.

@ids1024 in that case I’m gonna stick to #emacs

@ids1024 and only when you’ve challenged the chosen deity (and won) can you enter command mode and quit

If you lose, your only option is :q!

@ids1024 not using VIM is even easier!

@ids1024 okay yes ha ha but actually… keybindings to move through “time” (history of edits) in as smooth a manner as hjkl would be kinda sweet sometimes

@ids1024 According to this, my keyboard isn't old enough to take advantage of vim's hidden features.

Instructions not clear, set computer on fire.
@ids1024

@ids1024 @dexter What are the keybinds for moving ana and kata?

@ids1024 Thank you! I didn't know the keybinding for temporal translation, but I really needed that feature.

@ids1024 I just wonder how j-k make sense for down-up...

@ids1024 steppity-step-and-jazzhands energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01L3T2cBCBo&t=118s

@ids1024
I remember nethack being recommended as an engaging way to become fluent in hjkl navigation L@L

@ids1024 For the longest time I exited vi by ctrl z followed by "killall -9 vi", seeing as if any vi processes were running as my user anywhere it'd definitely not be intentionally, so might as well brutally murder them all.

I did eventually learn esc + :q! as I certainly wouldn't want to write back whatever I'd mangled the buffer with to disk.

Then there was that time I symlinked vi to emacs on the shell server of the ISP I ran (muhahaha... the cries of the vi users; I did revert it)

@ids1024
A vim clutch may help if you want to get your feet involved!
@Scmbradley

@ids1024
First Law of Necromancy: Never summon that which you don’t know how to undo (and <delete> just gets you a demonic laugh!)

@ids1024 now, what's the #emacs version of those commands? 🤔

@ids1024

I would have liked to give you three stars.

@ids1024 What does the eye of Horus and the Horned Viper do?

@ids1024 I love Vim but that's so fucking relatable 😂😂

@ids1024 thanks for the tips, but does vim include a psychiatrist? 😂

@ids1024 If I try to use η or λ, just nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
And are there neo keybindings for runes so that deity-switching gets possible? How do deities interact with specific vim instances or are deity switches permanent per person who uses vim? How does it work? Sounds very interesting. \gen

@ids1024

huh... i'd assume if you choose the wrong deity, there's no escape, so no write-quit or exit... :)

@ids1024 Error: No write since last change

@ids1024 one way to learn is https://vim-adventures.com/

@ids1024
y - set time to current map plus/minus ten years
left shift y - move backwards through time
right shift y - move forwards through time
$ - fit map $cales to window
x - exit map layout & filter mode

#chronoFAQ #chronoNews #geoIxD time travel on #oldmaps

@ids1024 @pavsmith was right

@ids1024
Ahhh I missed ξ and κ when I was learning ! Thanks, pal.

@ids1024 @ParadeGrotesque I love vim, but I use it so sparsely that I always have to remind me of some basic shortcuts =/

@ids1024 there is an emacs function for that

@ids1024
Hello Douglas

@ids1024 @the_roamer

:q! - exit without sacrificing a virgin