[TxMt] Re: My VIM experience

On 3 Nov 2010, at 04:56, Martin Hess wrote:

3. Don't need arrow keys -- after years of editing with the mouse; I find it painful to reach for it. It hurts my right shoulder and shoulder blade. It even hurts to have to move my hand down to the arrow keys. However, in Vim it is easy to keep your hands resting on your keyboard with your shoulders relaxed. No reaching for the mouse or arrow keys.

Many of the emacs key bindings are supported so, for example:

control f moves cursor forward one character control b moves cursor backward one character control n moves cursor down one line control p moves cursor up one line

These are standard in all mac text fields as well as TextMate. No cursor keys are needed and they also work with the shift to select, etc..

Dave.