Keyboard shortcuts, it’s a love-hate relationship. On one hand, they unlock hidden cheat code levels of productivity — on the other, they unlock… What was that again? … Oh yeah, you just can’t remember them! What is it about keyboard shortcuts that makes them so hard to remember? Should you even bother? Is there a reliable way to learn them?
Why is it so hard to remember keyboard shortcuts? Simply put, there’s so many shortcuts to remember, and their use taxes a different class of memory.
** Hotel Vim ** or: Hotel Colon q. Bang on a dark linux bash prompt, new boss in my hair hot coffee and hardware, stale conditioned air ls listing the files, i cat configs that ain't right my head so heavy and my sight so dim i'd have to work through the night there she sat in the bin dir i heard the terminal bell and i was thinking to myself 'just a quick tweak and all will be well' then she lit up the keyboard and showed me the way three letters in the dark of night i thought i heard vim say welcome to the hotel :q! what a focused place (such a spacious place) what a maker's space. buffers abound at the hotel :q! in any kind of gear (any kind of gear) you can find vim here her modes are insert and normal, she got a visual trend she got a lot of frantic, fledgling fans, that she calls friends how they mash in frustration, sweet intern sweat some mash the escape key, some mash ctrl-c so i call up stack o'flow 'how do i exit vim?' it said, 'we get that question here since nineteen-ninety-one' and still new coders are howling from far away, hit you up in the middle of a break just to hear vim say welcome to the hotel :q! what a focused place (such a spacious place) what a maker's space. they rub 'Esc' blank at the hotel :q! what a /wonderland/ (what an &), bring your Ex commands fingers on the home row not a mouse in sight and she said, 'we are all vim\'s prisoner\'s here, of our own device' and from the master branches they `i` changes to the hash they Zed-Zed with their cherry reds and the buffer fades to bash last thing i remember, i was yearning to grok more i had to get the sourcecode back to place i was before 'relax' said the vim tuts vim is programmed to receive you :q any time you like but you won't want to leave! ----------------------------------------------- Hotel Vim • by Ty Walls (2017), to the tune of Hotel California (Eagles, 1977) • dedicated to Bram Moolenaar and the millions of developers who wandered the halls of Vim searching for the exit, but found a fun and efficient home instead.