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Learning VIM while playing a game

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Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

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Post by pervycreeper »

vog wrote: post #14

Congratulations to that very nice and useful game! I loved to play around with the first 2 levels. It's a pity that the project's state is totally unclear (at least to me, a casual visitor). Is it meant to become a community project? Is it a demo of something that will be sold in the future? The explaining text behind the "Unlock Levels" button adds even more confusion: > Additional levels are currently being develop…

Not to mention that this all goes against free software values, in a game that touts "the power of open source".

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

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Post by lell »

Nice! I got bored before I finished the first level, but not before I was trying to use stuff like ^,$ and ctrl+f, ctrl+b, 5l to get to the end of the tunnels faster and those didn't work. Is more advanced editing unlocked in later levels? or is this just for getting off the arrow keys? I can imagine some cool things in a more advanced vim game like * for teleporting between words, mm to drop a bookmark, :badd to get to a new level ...

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

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Post by jbri »

lell wrote: post #22

Nice! I got bored before I finished the first level, but not before I was trying to use stuff like ^,$ and ctrl+f, ctrl+b, 5l to get to the end of the tunnels faster and those didn't work. Is more advanced editing unlocked in later levels? or is this just for getting off the arrow keys? I can imagine some cool things in a more advanced vim game like * for teleporting between words, mm to drop a bookmark, :badd to get…

It starts out very slow - the second level introduces w, e and b. That seems to be it so far.

Re: Learning VIM while playing a game

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Post by ravichhabra »

vog wrote: post #14

Congratulations to that very nice and useful game! I loved to play around with the first 2 levels. It's a pity that the project's state is totally unclear (at least to me, a casual visitor). Is it meant to become a community project? Is it a demo of something that will be sold in the future? The explaining text behind the "Unlock Levels" button adds even more confusion: > Additional levels are currently being develop…

Right when the second level ends, it says "You learned some word navigation and managed to get here. But you have to buy a license to unlock the rest of the game and continue learning VIM!"

It is not free.

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