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Disabling the search highlight seems like a rather lowly use for leader+space. Great guide though, didn't know about quite a few options in here, wildmenu is great.

I switched to vim from subl about a month ago - it took a bit of getting used to but I'm loving it now. I still use subl for some multi cursor wizardry but that's less and less common now.

I found the disabling the arrow keys in normal mode was the point of no return!

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> I found the disabling the arrow keys in normal mode was the point of no return!

Is there any reason to do this when you have a keyboard that has easily reachable arrow keys? (Kinesis Advantage, in my case.)

Yea, it forces you to use the vim bindings. This is advantageous, since your hands don't leave the home row. It seems minor, but when you actually "get" vim, you'll actually see speed improvements. It sounds silly, the half second saved here and there, but once you've done it long enough, you get into a flow that you just can't get moving your hands to the arrows or mouse.

^ this. I could likely reuse them for something now but when your muscle memory has you going there all the time at the start it's better if they just do nothing. I think it is at least.

Author here.

Agreed it sounds like a poor use at first blush. I lean on search for navigation frequently enough that having a super convenient :noh binding really works for me.

Use whatever you want though!

I managed to use Escape to disable search highlight: https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/ce0e18cb40f52f0c60d1...

there are at least one plugin for multiple cursors stuff - https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

Yeah - I need to have another look into it. Visual block is working ok for the time being.

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