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I am an absolute starter with vim. Right now I am learning vim through vimtutor. To get better productivity where should my fingers be placed while using H,J,K, L keys . Any diagram will suffice here . I want to learn it correctly the first time.
You should hold Your fingers on home row.
Vim key positioning try to take advantage of this and positions commonly used functionalities around home row. By doing this you can quickly switch between navigation and edition.
You should learn touch typing.
There are lots of tutorials out there.
Once you do this you will be much more productive, not only with vim but with any other application which requires typing as well.
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I need a live multi rename tool.
The one you can find in double commander, or even better total commander.
The best I could find is renameutils,
which lists all the files and let me edit them in my favorite text editor,
but nothing beats something which is designed to be specifically used to rename.
Is there such a program?
Has to be live and interactive - I have to see the edits I'm doing before hitting the "OK" key.
Has to be in the command line - ncurses, slang, shell. Just not GUI.
Edit:
It's probably doesn't belong here, but super-user:)
Answers would still be welcome.
How about RenameWand? http://renamewand.sourceforge.net/
But you indeed should have tried superuser instead: https://superuser.com/questions/25378/mass-renaming-nix-version
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I'm an absolute beginner and I've never worked on a Linux machine before. I was working on a emacs file from home on a virtual machine. Now that I'm on a Linux machine at school, how do I run LateX on the file and view the dvi? I was able to open emacs and load the file.
You can use C-c C-c, which is bound to the function tex-compile.
Here's a useful hint: you can use C-h m to bring up the documentation for a mode. This documentation usually has a list of the keybindings associated with the mode. In this case, there's a list under the heading "Special Commands:" which includes C-c C-c tex-compile as well as some other commands which may be useful in the future.
One of the best things about Emacs is that it's self-documenting, so learning to use the help system (keys starting with C-h) is invaluable.
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For example, Impulse Tracker for DOS was a nice music production app that was among the first to create a smooth mouse using glyphs generated on the fly in the characters located near the current position of the mouse. (Read here for a better description of what I mean).
So, I'm just wondering if that can be done in Linux terminals (e.g. the tty1-6 terminals or Gnome Terminal). Is it possible?
(EDIT: Should I post this on unix.stackexchange.com instead?)
Seeing as the terminal itself (and not the application) usually sets the font being used, I don't think this is possible. For the tty1-6 terminals, you could use a framebuffer to accomplish this, if you were that dedicated to the idea. With a terminal emulator on a desktop environment, I do not believe this is possible.
Would GPM accomplish what you're looking for, with a lot less hassle?
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I'm a huge fan of Vim, and I largely adhere to the extremely efficient modal editing style. After some experience with Vim, I decided to get into other software that shared its philosophy on efficient/speedy keyboard usage. This naturally led me to tiling window managers, which allows one to efficiently manage window space, workspaces/tags, multiple screens, etc. all with keyboard shortcuts.
It seems a large majority of users of TWMs use Vim, so I was wondering why there isn't a Vim-like window manager? By this, I mean rather than use some awkwardly-placed modifiers to manage windows, there is a specific mode you must enter from which all window management is simply a keystroke away.
That way, you can do all your manipulation by entering, say wm mode, hit all your manipulations with single keystrokes, and exit wm. Does such a window management style exist, and if not, well why not?
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is it possible to make vim scroll by screenlines instead of file lines?
More precisely: i edit texts with large paragraphs, and i put enter only at the end of a paragraph. Thus, for vim, each of my paragraphs is a single line, and these lines are very long. When moving around vim jumps very long distances and i get lost. Vim seems to be suitable only for editing programs?
I know about mapping j to gj and so on (i have done them). However just mapping these is not enough i also want the scrolling to be corrected for screenlines.
I have done some searching , but i cannot find a clear answer to whether screen line scrolling is possible or not.
If it is not possible, would somebody know of an, possibly ugly hack to do it? In its current setting vim is not usable, which is sad because i prefer its other features very much over the other editors around. (i do not like the idea of having to learn emacs ...)
Sorry, the answer is: no.
Browse through this [somewhat] recent nabble thread where Bram Moolenaar himself describes why this hasn't been implemented yet. (basically, it has too much potential for introducing bugs)
http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Scrolling-screen-lines-I-knew-it-s-impossible-td3358342.html