I'm currently reading the Pragmatic Programmer and today it made me feel pretty bad that I'm not using the full power of a good command shell (i.e. Unix style shell, cygwin) or a 'proper' editor (i.e. Emacs or vi (vim for windows).
So today I'm learning vim. The windows download is
here, if after it installs you open the readme file it points you in the direction of a pretty handy tutorial. I'm working my way through it and here's what I've leant.
There seems to be two 'modes' normal and command
In normal mode press:
h cursor left
j cursor down
k cursor up
l cursor right
i insert text at that point, press Esc to go back to normal mode
x deletes the character under the cursor
A append text to the current line
dw delete from the cursor to the end of the current word
de delete from the cursor to the end of the current word, exculding last character
d$ delete from the cursor to the end of line
d2w delete 2 words
dd delete the current line
2dd delete two lines
u undo last command
U undo all changes on a line
Ctrl-R redo, undo the undo's
That's enough for now, time to do some real work but I'll be trying to use vim where possible.
