[Tutor] vim as a python editor

[Paul Griffiths]

On 8 February 2011 04:44, Alexander Fairley <alexander.fairley at gmail.com>wrote:

> Some high profile ruby hackers have put together a pretty snazzy set of
> vim/gvim configs together on github at
>
> https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
>
>
Thank you, but I think this only works on OSX?  I use Ubuntu and if I
understand your link correctly, gvim has the equivalent functionality.



> On the topic of configuring Capslock to be an escape key, it's because
> that's where the "meta" key used to be on old school unix keyboards, and so
> it makes you double plus unix if you reconfigure things that way(also has
> the plus of rendering emacs a lot more usable).
>


Sorry, I don't know what 'meta' key and 'double plus' means.   What I've now
done, using Preferences > Keyboard, is to swap the functionality of the Esc
and Caps Lock keys.  This helps me because I'm a fairly competent touch
typist.  Every time I need to press Esc on a default keyboard, I have to
lift my left hand from the asdf home keys to get at it.  This 'breaks the
flow' and gets quite annoying after a while.


>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:
>
>> Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>>> "Paul Griffiths" <paulmg2010 at gmail.com> wrote
>>>
>>>> I've learned that:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> - re-configuring the Caps Lock to be an extra Esc saves time
>>>>
>>>
>>> Huh? How do you use that? Its a new one on me. Why would two escape keys
>>> be useful?
>>>
>>
>> What if you want to escape the escape, so that (say) esc-C is the same as
>> just C?
>>
>>
>> Not-very-helpfully y'rs,
>>
>> --
>> Steven
>>
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