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Re: VIM Master

#11

Post by omidmash »

jrm4 wrote: post #7
ixwt wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this one asks you to pay for it after a bit. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just felt bad about getting a little bit in, and then being hit with a decent pay wall.

Right, I mean, author has the right to do this -- but it still seems like a gloriously stupid thing to try to get someone to pay for in this way; like what market is this? Like, I'd bet "Pay $10 if you like it" / ReaperWare would earn this person literally an order of magnitude more money.

Yep. I was trying to buy some licenses for my school, and they only offerend subscriptions in which I am not interested. A shame! Such a great game.

Re: VIM Master

#14

Post by twile »

This is cool, I would love to see some more rounds and vim lessons! I use a lot of these basics on the daily.

Re: VIM Master

#15

Post by cramsession »

I'm surprised they don't even mention vimtutor. It's preinstalled on every machine with vim (to the best of my knowledge). This seems like a cool project, but might as well give a shout-out to the original concept.

Re: VIM Master

#16

Post by soperj »

benjaminclauss wrote: post #9

These little tutorials and games are great. I played VIM Adventures. However, one thing I really struggle with is learning when I can be doing something more efficiently. I rarely use markers, anything beyond default registers, commands, and so on. I'm giving Neovim a try for my systems course trying to get better but I do wish these sorts of games pushed me to get better at these more advanced usage tricks.

Oh man, I use markers all the time. ma y'a

mark a spot, then yank or delete everything to that line. Way easier to do it accurately rather than 13yy or however many lines you're yanking.

Re: VIM Master

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Post by nomilk »

ixwt wrote: post #4
eej71 wrote: post #3

There is also this one https://vim-adventures.com/

I think this one asks you to pay for it after a bit. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just felt bad about getting a little bit in, and then being hit with a decent pay wall.

I paid for it, was worth it for me. Reason: I did vimtutor 4 times and was learning but found it super painful/boring, but really wanted to learn vim keybindings. Vim adventures made learning keybindings and muscle memory just tolerable that I could do 1h in the evening even after a long/busy/tedious day. I probably would have persisted learning vim keybindings without it, but it definitely made doing so less painful.

Re: VIM Master

#20

Post by indoordin0saur »

linhns wrote: post #18

Nice job. Ideal next level should be macros.

Yeah, this is a great idea. Seems like there are others out there. I am intermediate in VIM and use it very frequently so the basic stuff I have down, but I am slow when doing advanced things. If anyone has a game like this but has advanced topics and is good for practicing those advanced topics I'd love to hear about it.
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