(Neo)Vim can handle multithreading properly - unlike Emacs - but otherwise Emacs feels far more extensible. The keybinding innovations - mostly taken from `ed` - and macro system make manipulating files an incredibly productive process. Vim users often have a library of cli and tui programs that they use in conjunction with Vim to facilitate a desktop ecosystem without a GUI.

Learn the keybindings! These standards work everywhere.

If you can install things on your system - and want to use an expressive cli text editor - use neovim. It runs faster, is more expressive, and supports built-in modern tooling for systems like the language-server protocol and tree-sitter for robust and performant syntax highlighting.

Cheat Sheets!

• Space vim guide
• Vim cheat sheet
• rtorr: vim cheat sheet
• YBlog - Learn Vim Progressively

Shortcuts

Evaluation of Leader keys

• Comma: As it should always be followed with a space grammatically, every other key can be freely mapped to with no delay! You lose the functionality of backwards repeating though…
• Space: What doom emacs uses. My current key and what I’m used to. This works fine, but the timeout definitely can impact the fluency of writing on occasion.
• Semicolon: Interesting option, but there seem to be some strange repeat patterns in specific modes.
• Escape: Controversial, it’s pretty far away… but it’s the default. Unclear whether bashing the pinkie to the right is a great motion (just like Emacs and the left).

Table of Contents

• [[{~} Switch case of letter]] [[habit]]
• [[fast navigation in string]]
• [[{t} search before character]] [[habit]]
• [use * and # for searching current word](#sndfrsrchngcrrntwrd TIDDLYLINK) [[habit]] [[vim]]
• [[vim-like apps]]
  • [https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/3tluqr/my_list_of_applications_with_vi_keybindings/](#swwwrddtcmrvmcmmntstlqrmylstfpplctnswthvkybndngs TIDDLYLINK)
  • [[https://xaizek.github.io/2016-08-13/big-list-of-vim-like-software/]]
• [2020-11-04] Vim Tips for the Intermediate Vim User | Jemma Issroff [[vim]]

{~} Switch case of letter [[habit]]

fast navigation in string

press ft (find char ‘t’)
then ; to repeat forward
, to repeat backwards

{t} search before character [[habit]]

use * and # for searching current word [[habit]] [[vim]]

vim-like apps

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/3tluqr/my_list_of_applications_with_vi_keybindings/

https://xaizek.github.io/2016-08-13/big-list-of-vim-like-software/

[2020-11-04] Vim Tips for the Intermediate Vim User | Jemma Issroff [[vim]]

vim

Useful shortcuts:

zz : move current line to middle of screen

zt : move current line to top of screen

zb : move current line to bottom of screen

ctrl e : move screen one line up

ctrl y : move screen one line down

ctrl d : move screen half a page down

ctrl u : move screen half a page up