Learning Vim incrementally (2010)
&gt;&gt; Turn off your arrow keys.<p>This has gotta be the worse piece of advice I&#x27;ve ever heard in my life, second
only to &quot;why don&#x27;t you march towards my line?&quot; [1]. I&#x27;ve been using Vim for
umm, eight years? Thereabouts. I never turn off my arrow keys. How much time
are you supposed to save like that? Milliseconds? You go much faster with B,
E, Crl+Y, Crl+D anyway.<p>Just misguided advice from otherwise well-meaning folks, that&#x27;s all.<p>Edit: btw, how do you go through your recent command history on vim without up and down arrow? Do you have to q: and navigate with hjkl every single time? Is that more productive than pressing up arrow three or four times?<p>_____________<p>[1] Sorry guys, Warhammer Fantasy Battles reference there. See, I got a shooty
Dwarf army, he&#x27;s got a shooty Empire army, so we&#x27;re standing just outside each
other&#x27;s range and scream insults at each other. His light cav mauls itself on
my Slayers trying to flank my Thunderers (yeah, I don&#x27;t know what he was
thinking, either). He&#x27;s got a Steam Tank, but I got a Lord on a shield (with a
metric shitton of runes) protected by a regiment of Ironbreakers (with a
metric shitton of runes) on the Tank&#x27;s side. So noone&#x27;s going anywhere in a hurry.
So, by way of friendly advice, he says &quot;why don&#x27;t you march towards my line?&quot;.
Yeah, right. So your Sniper can pick out my Lord and your Tank and Knights can
sanswich my guys? You kiddin&#x27;?<p>Btw, he did win anyway. It turns out you gotta make _a lot_ of saves against a
well-designed Steam Tank. Also, I suck at aiming artillery. But, come on.
&quot;Walk towards my line&quot;? Do I look like an Elf or something?