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:qa! because I totally saved that first buffer... right?
CTRL-ALT-T $ killall vim
I see that and raise with killing the entire virtual machine in order to exit nano.
A CLI game to learn Vim
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Re: A CLI game to learn Vim
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The classic key bindings for rougelikes were vi key bindings. So rogue, hack, nethack, moria... Newer games of the genera typically still allow the classic bindings, but not as easily supported.
Back in the early 90s, I learned the vi movement keys through hunt(6) from the BSD Games collection. Can't find a good link for the package, but here is the man page: https://www.unix.com/man-page/bsd/6/hunt/
Re: A CLI game to learn Vim
#53I got comfortable on the basic Vim keys using shortcutFoo [0], plus actually diving in to using it full-time. Learning Vim takes full time usage as you need to switch over your muscle memory. I still find that GVim is brilliant for beginners as it is tolerant of using other style shortcuts so you don't burn yourself. Even though you might learn slower you're more likely to progress as it's less frustrating. I don't k…
I'm going to try that! I wonder though, who here didn't have success with vimtutor? I had success learning the basics of vim with vimtutor.
Vimtutor did not work for me, but vim adventures taught me enough to be comfortable using vim on a daily basis. I think it may be because vimtutor focuses on one topic at a time, while vim adventures forces you to use everything you learned up to a point, so it is more of a spaced repetition approach.
Re: A CLI game to learn Vim
#54Text UI != CLI. I still remember the vim movement commands from some game I played years ago when I tried to learn it. It's a nice way to learn. Reminds me of "typing games" that used to exist.
The classic key bindings for rougelikes were vi key bindings. So rogue, hack, nethack, moria... Newer games of the genera typically still allow the classic bindings, but not as easily supported.
Was waiting for someone to say this. Got comfortable with Vim movement while descretley playing in-browser Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup at work.