How a Broken Keyboard Improves Vim Skills
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1 min readDec 19, 2014
I’ve been reading a series of articles by Dan Prince about why he loves Vim. The second article is about how a broken laptop keyboard forced him to get better at Vim.
One day the left arrow key on my laptop broke. It completely stopped working.
This was at a time when I had projects to finish at work, assignments to write for University and I was attempting to devote time to working on personal projects too.
By the end of the week, I was using the home keys to navigate at my usual speed.
This is a new take on the “why hjkl is awesome” argument, but Dan’s posts are well illustrated and should win some beginners over to doing things the hard (right) way.
