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Yan Pritzker
Personal blog · yanpritzker.com · on HN as skwpprogrammingproductivity
Yan Pritzker's personal blog at yanpritzker.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Learn to speak vim - verbs, nouns, and modifiers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Vim blog for its 'learn to speak Vim' explanation of verbs, nouns and modifiers, presented as a way to understand Vim's editing model rather than memorise commands.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Learn to speak vim - verbs, nouns, and modifiers10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2011-12-16
What Hacker News says?
Personally, I find vim's modal editing to be very efficient. When starting from a clean slate, it doesn't really matter much -- but when changing/ editing existing text/code, I find it feels much more natural. It also works well without using the mouse, which is important to me because of carpal tunnel syndrome (and also helps when working without a proper mouse, such as on laptops). I've only toyed with emacs, but…
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on “Vim 8.0 is coming”Submitted Learn to speak vim - verbs, nouns, and modifiers as a story · 208 points
HN discussionWhy can't we embed vim or emacs in a web document? We can, that's not the issue. The problem is that if you embed an editor - any editor - into the project, you're forcing everyone to use it, while currently each developer has the freedom to choose his own. And if don't embed the editor, then there's nothing to discuss; one can already use web based editors if one wants to, and I can use VIM ;) Can I please point ou…
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on “Cello: Higher level programming in C”Submitted Vim - Navigating files in vertical splits as a story · 55 points
HN discussionIn case you missed it, this one will teach you much more than just a few commands... It's all about combining commands or producing 'sentences' as the author calls it: http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-n...
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on “Vim anti-patterns”Submitted The cleanest vimrc you'll ever see as a story · 52 points
HN discussionVim is very easy, I think it's just simple to get overwhelmed with it. There are a couple of tools which gamify Vim. I personally haven't used them. But some say they're pretty good. For me, what worked was just jumping in and going whole hog. I tried disabling the arrow keys in Normal Mode, so I would have to use hjkl for navigation. But my keyboard puts the arrow keys in easy reach (Kinesis Advantage), so it turne…
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on “Vim for Humans”Submitted Git Workflows Book as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Sorry, I don't mean autocomplete. I mean other editors that do not rely on a large number of keyboard shortcuts. I have never seen someone use vim quickly. I'm not sure I follow. Have you seen people use vim slowly? Or have you not seen anyone use vim at all? Vim (from v7?) has built-in "omnicompletion", by default bound to ctrl-n -- that you can use for everything (by default it "tab completes" against words in t…
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on “Visual Studio Code 1.2 released”Submitted 5 ways to get insane productivity boosts for coders as a story · 5 points
HN discussionInstead of "odd shortcuts," think of it like this guy does: Learn to speak vim — verbs, nouns, and modifiers! https://yanpritzker.com/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-nouns-and-m... "To move efficiently in vim, don’t try to do anything by pressing keys many times, instead speak to the editor in sentences " delete the current word: diw (delete inside word)"
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on “Unix as IDE”Submitted Nine months of pair programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese articles are also helpful: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-d... http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-n...
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on “Coming Home to Vim”Submitted How to change vim syntax colors that are annoying you as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor a bit more about what flukus mentioned with regards to vim being a language, not a bunch of commands, see e.g. http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-n...
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on “Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)”Submitted Learn to speak vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBoth Emacs (reportedly, I use vim) and vim have a system that allows you to be more effective in every thing you do when manipulating text. I cannot give examples for Emacs, but for vi(m) the interface is based around a few basic concepts: Two modes: command mode and insert mode You type in insert mode. You do everything else in command mode. You'll end up doing most work in command mode (well, sort of). Command mod…
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on “My biggest problem with Vim”Submitted Learn to speak vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionvimtutor is pretty good, actually. Outside of that, http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-n... has a nice explanation of the editing worldview, which ties in with Steve's quote in http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/16.ht... , "The idea of operators and movements is one of the most important concepts in Vim, and it's one of the biggest reasons Vim is so efficient. We're going…
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on “Learn Vimscript the Hard Way”Submitted Talk Notes: Rails Sustainable Productivity by Xavier Shay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhenever there's a Vim article on HN, the same questions and comments appear. Is Vim really all that? Isn't it really old? I'm already using BBEdit/Textmate/Emacs/Notepad++/Sublime Text/the editor du jour - is it worth it to switch? That's when I post links to articles like "Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?" http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html and "Coming Home to Vim" http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/…
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on “Textmate to VIM”Submitted Vim/rails/git: find references to current partial as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convert rspec pending to xit with vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dotfiles for insane productivity in bash, git, and vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean split testing with Nginx and Mixpanel in 5 minutes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop using colon commands in vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 minutes a day for exponential productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to win friends with Maintenance Driven Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails plugin: view a tree of all your partials as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim demystified: ten commands you can start using today as a story · 1 points
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