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samsepi0l
samsepi0l

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be faster in Vim scrolling

So, there is a problem in Vim that I noticed, but have nothing to do with Vim. And that's scrolling and navigation feels slow. It's because you need to increase keyboard repeat rate in settings.

For Linux it's in Keyboard setting Tab "Behaviour" "Typing settings"

and then "enable key repeat"

and what works for me (for now) is to have "repeat delay" of 300 ms (time for how long you press button, when it registers to 'repeat' that same key more .. (for more speed and responsiveness get this as low as you can withstand, depends a lot on the keyboard (if keyboard keys are sticky, you can't have that much speed, because keycaps take time to get back to their position)

"repeat speed" is on 70 for me. update: now it's on 100

So, that's a cool tip, if you feel Vim scrolling is a bit annoying.

So here is screenshot:

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