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Section 7
This does not explain exactly what is happening. there is a 7 character command that doesn't make any sense (to a vim noob like me)
Hi, thanks for your input.
There seems to be two problems.
First that it's not clear that there is actually three separate find commands happening on that section. Glueing many user actions is common in other sections, so the tutorial could be made better overall on that regard.
Secondly, after f and w user is expected to do f and s but that is misleading as there are no s characters to be found. So nothing happens. I don't remember whether that was intentional, but it's bad design either way.
A little bit of explanation The following text is to only enlighten the situation for you--or others that read this PR--but shoudn't be taken as defensive stance. Though I probably won't make too big changes anymore to the tutorial even I have had lots of ideas.
So this the situation at the beginning of the section 7, where cursor is at [Y]ou.
First f does nothing but makes the Vim wait for the character which it should find. After w it knows user wants to go to the next w character. So the cursor changes its place to [w]ith. Admittedly it is not as clear as it probably should.
And Vim is waiting again for new commands. (At this point the tutorial could make it clearer to the user that something happened.)
But after that f and s do nothing, as there is no s to be found after the cursor (which is confusing but correct).
After that user is requested to do 3, then f, and q which means:
- three times (3)
- do the findinging of next
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q.
So the 3fq command finds next q (first), proceeds to next q (second), and lastly settles on q like on the screen, that is [q]ue:
Sorry about the confusion, and hope it got a little bit clearer.
