I practiced some Vim today in the same Practical Vim book.
Learned that Vim writes history to vim info file that persists across machine boots.
The history is not only execute commands but also search patterns and I am sure other commands.
In execute command mode Ctrl-d.
* in normal mode searches for the hovered word.
<C-r><C-w> in execute mode copies the current word in as pattern for things like substitutions.
In Godot, I practiced making a space ship move with player inputs.
The most important parts were adding the controls in the Project settings.
The direction is stored as a 2DVector.
The Input object has an axis method that accepts two input arguments like “move_down” or “move_up” to map values between -1 and 1 to.
direction is updated to match these values and then scaled by whatever speed is desired.
Lastly, the direction vector must be normalized if the length is above 1.0 which happens when moving diagonally which would make the ship move 1.4 times faster #pythagoreantheorum.
