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Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
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#22Love it!
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Re: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#23I really want to like vim and I love some things about it, like the ability to move chunks about with only the keyboard. But so many things about it kill me. Like, why can't I hit right at the end of a line, and move to the next line? Who thinks that is a good idea? Also, why do I have to have a special mode to insert things? Having to change modes just seems so complex and unintuitive. And why does the help system n…
Re: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
#24IMO one of the best ways to learn vim after the basic movement is to copy others vimrc and build your own using vim. Use :help or :h along the way. vimrc is fairly simple to edit compare to actual programming languages.
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#26I really want to like vim and I love some things about it, like the ability to move chunks about with only the keyboard. But so many things about it kill me. Like, why can't I hit right at the end of a line, and move to the next line? Who thinks that is a good idea? Also, why do I have to have a special mode to insert things? Having to change modes just seems so complex and unintuitive. And why does the help system n…
I think most people would agree with you. Being comfortable in your editor of choice and knowing the shortcuts in it will already make you faster than trying to use vim from scratch (at least for a while). Vim definitely needs to be practiced and used more frequently to get up to the same speed as regular editors. However, you can reach (an arguably) faster speed in vim.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
This may be a little elitist, but if you're not going to use vim the way it's really made to be used, why even bother? I get that `mouse=a` makes it more familiar, but if you're always going to reach for your mouse, you're never going to really get used to the motions.
Vim was designed on qwerty keyboards. On other layouts (e.g. neo2) hjkl are not in a row.
That's somewhat comforting to know. I'm in the beginning stages of building out a keyboard-heavy application, and I keep wondering about how to support different keyboard types. I suppose it's not possible to satisfy all customers if even Vim can't do it.
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#28My pet peeve is Vim tutorials that start with "use hjkl to move around" instead of "use `set mouse=a` to turn on the mouse." In my opinion you need to make sure that you are very clearly disclaiming that you are teaching a harder way of doing things in exchange for incredibly small productivity gains that will be realized years in the future, if ever. (This is basically a copy-paste of previous comments I’ve made, I…
I very whole heartedly disagree. I find vim to be an unusable vi implementation until I turn off mouse support completely. For that matter, I also have to turn off any automatic indentation and any other "smart" feature that people try to ram into their distro-default configurations. It's nearly as annoying as autocorrect is on a desktop computer.
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#29I really want to like vim and I love some things about it, like the ability to move chunks about with only the keyboard. But so many things about it kill me. Like, why can't I hit right at the end of a line, and move to the next line? Who thinks that is a good idea? Also, why do I have to have a special mode to insert things? Having to change modes just seems so complex and unintuitive. And why does the help system n…
press o?
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#30This is the wrong way to go, if the UI is so bad it requires a course, then the problem is clearly the tool.