TOME 1.0! - and other Roguelikes.

[mrhanman]

Thanks for the VI-Key RPG link mrhanman, I may as well learn to use the editor if I have the opportunity.

It does a good job of teaching the basics.  After the 3rd level, you have to buy a license to continue on to the more advanced stuff.  The first 3 levels cover navigation, which is the most cryptic part of vim, I think.

[Echo35]

Yeah, same here. Aside from the new school of very graphical roguelikes (Dredmor for example), most roguelikes I've played have reserved the vi-keys for movement, usually also allowing movement with the arrow keys for noobs, and keypad movement for the new faithful.

Myself, I didn't start using vi-keys until I absolutely had to, when I bought a netbook in 2009 and became enchanted with the idea of playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on it (see attachment).

Like I said before, it took about a week on/off before I got used to it, and as the image indicates, I used a reference card to help out. It took the mental image of HJKLYUBN as the shape of a rose to drive it home, with the up/down/left/right forming the stem, and the diagonals forming the petals in my mind.

The WASD keys on my laptop have arrows on them. I think when I upgrade I'll buy some water transfer decals of arrows and do the same to the Vim navigation keys.

[madcow]

Okay, I'm seriously clueless here. What IS vim navigation?

[Aklyon]

Okay, I'm seriously clueless here. What IS vim navigation?

Its what you use to navigate vim. And also some more traditional roguelikes.

[keith.lamothe]

Its what you use to navigate vim.

One does not simply navigate vi.

[Aklyon]

Its what you use to navigate vim.

One does not simply navigate vi.

Thus why madcow is confused about what it is.

[doctorfrog]

One does not simply Video Games.

[Mánagarmr]

Vi

[keith.lamothe]

Ah, but where is the emacs of roguelikes?

[Echo35]

Ah, but where is the emacs of roguelikes?

Well, I mean, ToME and Falcon's Eye have graphics...

[Aklyon]

Ah, but where is the emacs of roguelikes?

Well, I mean, ToME and Falcon's Eye have graphics...

But do they have a butterfly-based command?

[keith.lamothe]

Ah, but where is the emacs of roguelikes?

Well, I mean, ToME and Falcon's Eye have graphics...

But do they have a butterfly-based command?

It used to be said that emacs could do everything but brew coffee.  Apparently it was said too loudly.

[madcow]

Strange and wonderful things and comics from multiple people about vim and apple products crossed with emus.

Never have I felt so glad to be blissfully ignorant as I do now.

[keith.lamothe]

Never have I felt so glad to be blissfully ignorant as I do now.

Do not gaze into emacs, or it will gaze back.

[madcow]

Never have I felt so glad to be blissfully ignorant as I do now.

Do not gaze into emacs, or it will gaze back.

That's eerily similar to how I feel about my time in research/grad school.