• Tangent5280@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          Can you share your setup? Is it monitor compatible? Do you carry your own keyboard and mouse? How long will yhe battery last when using with a monitor? What do you do for package management?

            • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 years ago

              Great setup. Have you had any issues with body posture, or visibility in use? As in, do you feel like you have to strain to see stuff on the smaller screen?

                • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  Nice; have you considered small form factor laptops, like the GPD mini-laptop or one of those box shaped mini computers? I suppose they make a lot less sense if you have to carry a seperate box around instead of just using your phone.

                  I explored this idea of substituting my laptop for work (its a giant ~17 incher) with either something small I can carry around with me or something I can just leave locked in my work drawer or something; so I’m excited to talk to someone who had similar ideas and made it work.

  • oldfart@lemm.ee
    12·
    2 years ago

    Vim is so good on mobile! I never understood its odd shortcuts (hjkl, for example) until I got to use it on a crippled mobile keyboard.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Vim’s keybinding makes more sense if you look at older keyboard layouts. For instance the escape key use to be near the area we keep the caps lock key now, for a lot of models.

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      For a second I thought you were joking… but I guess the lack of arrows makes sense that you would like hjkl.

    • ☭SaltyIcetea☭@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      The reason for the hjkl thing is that the keyboard of vim’s (maybe it was vi’s idk) developer had no separate arrow key’s but rather had said arrow keys printed on hjkl.

      Something like that:

      H← J↑ K↓ L→

        • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
          17·
          2 years ago

          So you want something like Nano.

          Vim is great for more complicated documents and programming because the modes allow you to fly around the document much faster. It’s not very useful unless you put the time into learning how to use it… and it’s not worth it for simple things imo.

          I use it to write work reports. It’s much faster for many things: one example I type dap and bam a whole paragraph is deleted, d5w and the next 5 words are deleted. I use snippets to compete reports like fill in the blanks (I have hundreds of snippets, I hit rpt then tab and a whole report skeleton is generated). Annoying long patient name? I hit CTRL-N and it fills out the name with only a few characters.

          Vim is actually just amazing for this kind of stuff.

        • fraydabson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          As someone who has been lightly using Linux for years but recently gotten more into it. I’ve always only ever used nano. But now I’m so into vim that when a program opens a config in nano I get confused when I can’t quit with :wq

        • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 years ago

          You don’t have to fight to exit in vim or save it’s 3 essential commands and I use nothing else :q, :wq, or just w it’s not that hard

  • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    Can it use plugins like on neovim? I’ve had it installed for a bit but I’ve only used a default configuration so far

      • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        Oh, I keep hearing about termux but on my Fdroid it says it hasn’t been updated in 2 years. Is it safe to use?

        • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Yeah that seems about right, there hasn’t been a new release since January of 2022. If you check the github, its still getting commits, but they aren’t in an actual release yet.

          • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
            1·
            2 years ago

            Ah ok, makes sense. I guess I’ll install it and play around with it! I mean, there are worse things to get distracted by lol…