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Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

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Re: Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

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Two things that helped me more than anything with "learning" vim and or ever wanting to use it:

1. Remap your "capslock" key to "escape." Vi was written using an ADM-3A terminal and its keyboard, which you can see here: https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys has the escape-key in a sane place. On modern keyboards, if you can, remap "capslock" to "escape" when pressed alone, and "ctrl" when pressed with another key.

2. Make your leader key something easy like the comma character "," E.g. to make a horizontal split, I press (not including quotation marks) ",h" or ",v" to make a vertical one.

Once I did those two things it all made so much more sense... It's also great because most editors these days support vim bindings, so even if you don't want to use vim you can still benefit from its really-awsome-once-you-figure-it-out UX.

Re: Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

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post #3

Ah Vim, one of the root causes of my imposter syndrome. (The others are CSS Grid, and Kubernetes)

Add real-time safety critical systems, realistic 3D rendering, reverse engineering, quines, Paxos, deep learning, production-quality Haskell, and Boston Dynamics.

Re: Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

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For the vim enthusiasts reading, I'd like to bring to your attention some other resources released in the last few months

— ThePrimeagen (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ENHE5xdFSwx71u3fDH5Xw

— Vim Tricks (newsletter/Twitter): https://vimtricks.com/

— and humbly, myself, Semicolon&Sons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=futay9NjOac&list=PLpkoC9yJXD...

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