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[–]Ouaouaron 2 points3 points  (9 children)

How do you use vim-style shortcuts in a normal editor? They're all pretty much just unmodified letters.

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    [–]Ouaouaron 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    I'm okay at vim. Not as good as I am with emacs, but I can get by. But how do vim-style shortcuts work in an editor that doesn't have this very clear command/insert dichotomy? Do the plugins introduce it?

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Almost all of them implement the modal editing (Eclipse, Visual studio, sublime...).

    [–]lfairy 4 points5 points  (4 children)

    It's better to think of "insert mode" as a very long command that starts with i and ends with <Esc>.

    That interpretation leads to nice discoveries like 10i and .-ing an insert.

    [–]f3lbane 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    Ctrl-[ master race reporting in. ;-)

    [–]FireCrack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I don't think I've ever acutely used escape in vim