using maps to get to destination
How can I start this post? I can’t think of any “proper” way, so I will just jump in.
If you are fed up with pressing Esc every time, you can change it to something more “useful,” like Caps Lock. Doing it is very easy:
- in your ~/.Xmodmap file enter these lines: (if it doesn’t exist, create it)
clear Lock
keycode 0×42 = Escape
and if you restart X, you will have your new Esc key!
note: thanks to heftig (#fedora-social @ freenode) for telling me about this.
VIM revealed
VIM ( Vi IMproved ) is a simple but very powerful text editor which you can use it to write scripts and generally anything. It’s just a text editor which happened to be so powerful. You can use it inside the terminal which gives you the ability to use it in a non-GUI interface ( which I’m going to try now 
) and it has its OWN shortcuts. Weird but understandable shortcuts which are again, easy to get used to. Editing is efficient in it, as I found it more efficient in writing C++ codes.
Anyway, for more information you can see www.VIM.org
For downloading it, if you use linux ( at least one of the most popular distros ) you just need to search in your package manager. For example, in case of fedora, the package is: VIM-X11
now, some quick tips to get started:
- if you want to get started, in terminal, type: $ vimtutor
- with ESC key, you go to the normal mode.
- with ‘i’ key, you can start inserting code.
- for saving: go to normal mode and type ‘:w’ without quotations
- for exiting VIM, go to normal mode and type ‘:q!’ without quotations
There are a lot of useful shortcuts which you can learn through VIM tutor ( vimtutor ). Also there is an IRC channel, #vim, if you would like to join and learn more about VIM through live talk.
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