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Re: If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys

Eleazar Meza — Fri, 31 May 2013 07:53:56 -0000

FINALLY, an actual tecnical reason to learn to use hjkl instead of the arrow keys,

Thank you. I can begin to force myself to stop using those arrows now :)

Re: Configuring multiple Flask sites with uWSGI and nginx on an Amazon EC2 Instance

Niklas b — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:40:33 -0000

This article helped me, specially the structure for uswgi. Thanks

Re: Mining the Public Tweet Stream for Fun and Profit

Hywel Jones — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:02:30 -0000

Very useful. Thanks. I had to delete the coordinates field though as I initially got 'Error binding parameter 5 - probably unsupported type.' I guess Twitter must have changed the detail of the coordinates since you wrote your code.

Re: Using Python and the NLTK to Find Haikus in the Public Twitter Stream

h6o6 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:42:19 -0000

Awesome, the poems are actually pretty awesome, haha. Thanks for posting the code!

Re: Using Python and the NLTK to Find Haikus in the Public Twitter Stream

Dan F-M — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:54:27 -0000

This is so awesome! I was inspired (by this and Pentametron [1]) to make an automatic limerick generator with NLTK [2]. The code is on github [3]. Thanks for the great post!

[1] http://pentametron.com
[2] http://limerick.dfm.io
[3] https://github.com/dfm/twitter...

Re: Using Python and the NLTK to Find Haikus in the Public Twitter Stream

billbock — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:17:52 -0000

*piqued my interest

Re: Using Python and the NLTK to Find Haikus in the Public Twitter Stream

Christopher Ing — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:36:46 -0000

Haha, that would be a great blog post. Unintentional celebrity haikus.

Re: Using Python and the NLTK to Find Haikus in the Public Twitter Stream

h6o6 — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:33:07 -0000

Yep, if instead of the public stream you use a particular user's stream, this should work the same. You can use Tweepy [1] and the Twitter streaming API [2] to do that.

[1] https://github.com/tweepy/twee...
[2] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/s...

Re: Using Python and the NLTK to Find Haikus in the Public Twitter Stream

Zerglinator — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:29:03 -0000

Is it possible to narrow it down to a single Twitter profile?

Re: If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys

Tyler Jameson Little — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:33:27 -0000

HJKL doesn't make sense with Dvorak, but I still grok vim just fine. The things that really keep me with vim are macros, marks (and deletion/yanking with marks), (v)split, and regex search & replace.

I have never used emacs, so I can't comment on features there, but I haven't used an editor that has such features baked in.

Re: If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys

AK — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:44:12 -0000

Thanks for detailed and thoughtful response. You are right about the key-remap dilemma. BTW, I browsed some code today having disabled arrow keys and I must say I am getting a hang of hjkl :P.

Toyed with the idea of making h-UP j-DOWN and k-LEFT l-RIGHT, instead I just made it -> "jkl;"

And yes IM is ba ig motivation. The thing is I type quite fast(accuracy is below expectation). It's a combination of spec-n-peck(minimal) and mostly touch, but as there's some spec too, so it's not touch. And even when it's just touch - the finger mapping is far from the standard mapping and placement. Whenever I try to stick to pure touch typing the time kicks in and I immediately resort to my used to method for faster typing)in shorter run). I even tried keeping my keyboard under the table slightly inside in the dark so that I won't see it. Didn't work, it was stupid :P

Guess some will-power shall help. Will see. Cheers :-)

Re: If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys

h6o6 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:12:38 -0000

One thing I should have mentioned is that using hjkl also forces you to escape editing mode often, which makes using the vim commands that much more available to you (and easier to pick up). Sometimes the arrow keys save some time by saving you the escape, but as soon as you need to do anything besides add text it becomes a detriment.

As a recovering Unreal Tournament (GOTY) addict, wasd is definitely comfortable. If you want to go ueberdork, you can remap the vim keys. Like you said, the problem is of course that wasd are all vim commands--some of them extremely important and you sort of want ready on your home row. I suppose you might be able to use your now dead hjkl keys for some of these commands :)

I found that instant messaging/chat is the best motivator for touch typing. The faster you can get your message out, the better! Best of luck.

Re: If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys

h6o6 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:06:16 -0000

Great point, you really only need to know enough to get comfortable. Not to start a flame war, but this is the reason why I could never get my head around emacs.

Re: If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys

Dmitriy Likhten — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:20:07 -0000

Yeah, no. Dude I grok'd vim when I did di" and Ctl+k(plugin)i" <-- replace motion with what is in the buffer. Once I used this like twice, I could no longer edit in other editors :)

Oh sure you CAN do it with some unknown key combinations, but the best part of vim is you learn the editing language, the more you know the more efficient you are. But unlike every other editor, vim does not require you to know literally everything.

Re: If you have failed to grok vim, ditch the arrow keys

AK — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:41:05 -0000

But as array keys are there and are clearly very easy to use why shouldn't we use them? I mean arrow keys are sth that you can use even while editing unlike hjkl.

I also believe that hjkl was not used for movement because it was the best option - as has been revealed it was used because it was the arrow-keys. So, while I must say that yes it actually distracts your right hand away from main keys but even if it needs to be done away with - do you(or anyone) really believe hjkl should be the answer(reason: above^) and not some other key combo like wasd or something else which is actually easier and more convenient esp for grokking? I mean we shouldn't stick to sth better just because it has been stated better.
If we use wasd or any other combo then comes the question of what to do with those functionalities involved with w,a,s,d - i.e. word ...delete etc.?

I face another problem and that is I am not able to touch type. I try to learn but the tutorials and tools are so bring that I give up :(

I wish I could find a way to learn touch typing.