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Or save all frustration and just don’t use vim ;-)
I've used vim for many years now. It is true, learning vim makes it very frustrating when you find yourself having to use another editor. Luckily, vim is pretty much everywhere so those situations are rare.
As an emacs user it's frustrating having to install emacs to do some config editing whereas in my experience vim is included everywhere. e.g. my router.
Or maybe just read/bookmark this single post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
I'm considering learning more vim besides "esc /insert and :q :w" and this might be a great start. As an emacs user it's frustrating having to install emacs to do some config editing whereas in my experience vim is included everywhere. e.g. my router.
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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)
How fitting that the tutorial for vim needs its own pre-tutorial for exiting.
Is there anything similar for emacs?
Hey y'all! I built this interactive course after a year of learning vim and finding it to be extremely useful in my day to day development experience. The course is designed to give you lots of interactive practice so you can develop the muscle memory needed to effectively use vim. Would love to hear what you guys think about it :)
For some meta-advice: ignore all the salty comments in this thread... it must be a full moon
Hey y'all! I built this interactive course after a year of learning vim and finding it to be extremely useful in my day to day development experience. The course is designed to give you lots of interactive practice so you can develop the muscle memory needed to effectively use vim. Would love to hear what you guys think about it :)
I think some (maybe vim experts) jumped a bit too quickly to vimtutor . In some regard, I agree. But I tried the initial exercise on my 8 year old and was impressed, so I purchased to have access to the rest. I'd say I'm a sub-par intermediate vim user - knowing enough to know that I don't know or use the true power of vim day to day, but have memorized a few "tricks" that seem to impress basic vim users. Hoping I ca…
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Looks like "vimtutor" is primarily text explaining the hotkeys. For me, the bottleneck to picking up vim has not been merely knowing the hotkeys, but more internalizing the commands and building muscle memory. The interactive game format of this website could possibly solve that, so it appeals to me.
It says this in the 3rd or 4th paragraph: > It is important to remember that this tutor is set up to teach by use. That means that you need to execute the commands to learn them properly. If you only read the text, you will forget the commands! And it's free, not 15 USD or whatever this site is charging.