Well, I've been using vi and it's brethren since about 2002 and I've pretty much always used the arrow keys; after some point it becomes muscle memory...
I never really understood what the problem with this was; I rarely actually use them (esc|capslock /str,ctrl+f|b etc) is usually how I move around and if I'm wanting to move a few chars my little finger is not moving very far (at least, on apple keyboards)...
Is this heathen territory? ;)
Do you see any big advantage of using a lot of buffers/tabs/splits over running multiple vims inside tmux? My workflow seems to be more multiple vim's and shells inside tmux (I have ` as my "control key" in tmux, which is right beside z on my keyboard) which always feels quicker to me than ctrl+ww or ctrl+w<arrow>; and I really like the "zoom" functionality there...
hitting `` to switch between windows in tmux is really nice, too.. :}
> Do you see any big advantage of using a lot of buffers/tabs/splits over running multiple vims inside tmux?
One advantage would be the ability to use vim registers to copy text from one buffer to another instead of having to go through tmux or screen. Another would be word or line completion in a given buffer using contents in another buffer. In general, by running multiple vim instances instead of a single vim instance, you lose the opportunity to leverage vim to manage multiple buffers by using information in a given buffer.
> Do you see any big advantage of using a lot of buffers/tabs/splits over running multiple vims inside tmux?
I think my personal benefit is that I don't have to make a bunch of new SSH connections every time I want to split files in vim, I can just open up a new buffer.
I never really understood what the problem with this was; I rarely actually use them (esc|capslock /str,ctrl+f|b etc) is usually how I move around and if I'm wanting to move a few chars my little finger is not moving very far (at least, on apple keyboards)...
Is this heathen territory? ;)
Do you see any big advantage of using a lot of buffers/tabs/splits over running multiple vims inside tmux? My workflow seems to be more multiple vim's and shells inside tmux (I have ` as my "control key" in tmux, which is right beside z on my keyboard) which always feels quicker to me than ctrl+ww or ctrl+w<arrow>; and I really like the "zoom" functionality there...
hitting `` to switch between windows in tmux is really nice, too.. :}