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by brazzledazzle 2941 days ago
Someone made a comment and deleted it that I’ll reply to here for them. One of their complaints was about spaces vs tabs and having to smash arrow keys.

I’m about to blow your mind (definitely blew my mind ages ago when I first learned about it):

Windows/Linux: Ctrl+arrow

Mac (rarely apps do ctrl but usually you can remap): Alt+arrow

This jumps words and will let you get around your lines much, much faster.

Of course vim or vim plug-ins would be useful to learn too, but you shouldn’t need to learn a whole new paradigm to navigate more efficiently.

2 comments

I share this at work every now and then and I'm always shocked people never tried it. Seems obvious to me.
I use vim and thus repeatedly pressing directional keys has never been my primary concern. That said, I use tabs.