Satya's blog - vim rocks on a slow link

Apr 03 2006 11:26 vim rocks on a slow link
I use vim, a modern version of the popular *nix editor vi. It rocks, and here's one more reason why. On a slow link, while editing text, it's hard to jump around using the cursor keys as I'm never sure just how many times I hit the right arrow and up arrow and so on. So I'm not sure where the cursor is going to end up when the link catches up to my keystrokes. Well, with vi I can use the motion keys and the multipliers to explicitly command the cursor: 4j^istuff, which says move down 4 lines, move to beginning of line, insert "stuff". And I don't care where the cursor is in between. This isn't very clear, is it.

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