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Re: Viper: replacing text?


From: Elena
Subject: Re: Viper: replacing text?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:51:22 -0700 (PDT)
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On 3 Set, 23:53, Lennart Borgman
> Someone may say I am wrong since " and P requires shift on most
> keyboards so it is really 10 in Viper...
>
> The real advantage with the Viper keys is in my opinion perhaps that
> you use the keyboard keys you reach very fast, ie normal letters. At
> least for me reaching Control and Meta is a bit slower.

Me too.

>
> However in the beginning getting used to the vi modal editing is a bit
> hard.

I think the trick is: you should always be in Viper mode. Whenever you
enter Insert mode to enter text, you should hit Esc as soon as
possible. And swap that useless Caps Lock with Esc ;-)


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