Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

Post by corytheboyd » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 4:48 PM UTC

julianlam wrote: post #90

corytheboyd wrote: post #63

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Not a mega power vim user, but maybe this qualifies. I use vim as my git editor. When doing interactive rebase, if I want to squash/fix commits, for example, I go to the first commit I want to change the command for, ‘ciw’ to change the command, ‘esc’ to exit exit, then for the subsequent commits I want to squash/fix, just use ‘.’ to replay those same commands to the new line. Works very well! I love using vim as the…

That's a neat tip, thanks for sharing that, this is the exact use case I was looking for. I was hoping to kick the can on learning vim macros down the road, and so here we go...

Post by necrotic_comp » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 4:56 PM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #99

necrotic_comp wrote: post #81

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I am absolutely not calling you dumb! Emacs doesn't work for my brain at all, but Vim does. There are lots of tools that are made for different kinds of people and they all help us towards getting to a certain result. I don't think it's fair to say that the user interfaces are bad, though. The defaults may be bare bones, but the point is that they are programmable environments that allow you to tailor them to your ne…

Ok, I'm sorry but I believe you are incorrect. People do not have different brains that way. Just like they don't have different 'learning styles'. That sort of thing is a discredited myth. I also think that it is objectively true and not only fair but also important for people to start to point out how bad these interfaces are. At some point traditions start to become a drag on society. One of the core principles of…

Post by libria » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

mhaberl wrote: post #34

varbhat wrote: post #31

Before trying these courses , Please try vimtutor that comes bundled with vim . After practicing with vimtutor , you can try these additional courses.

For anyone wondering, you use it by executing vimtutor in terminal (not in vim). Also, you exit by pressing ESC and then typing :q (hit enter)

Post by irrational » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #79

slowhand09 wrote: post #59

$15 for lifetime access... rubs chin... I'm old. Would you take $5 as my life is 2/3 gone?

Even though, admit it... If the course is really good, the extra $10 are nothing compared to the several hours of frustration that you could save.

Post by enriquto » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

Twisell wrote: post #104

Well I think the nice point of doing excercise in a web browser is that you can quickly switch to another tab and search for daring questions such as " by the way why on earth does this monstrosity want me to use hjkl? That don't make any sense!!!!" https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys For a mostly data/SQL guy wanting to learn more about coding it still don't make much sense but at least I know why a…