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Very cool site! Working on my own similar project: https://vimgolf.ai To learn new vim motions. Have since gotten distracted by life, but need to actually finish it.
Very cool site! Working on my own similar project: https://vimgolf.ai To learn new vim motions. Have since gotten distracted by life, but need to actually finish it.
The required login/sign-up, privacy policy and lack of apparent open-sourcing seems antithetical for the average Linux user. You're going after a niche of a niche of a niche with this one, good luck lol.
There is also this one https://vim-adventures.com/
You start out and you only have `h,j,k,l` available to you (despite what the help says). So just end up holding the keys and maybe that's fine but then that first level is WAY too big.
Like I got to the second area and it starts talking about word motions and then you try `w,b,e` and it then tells you those keys aren't available. That's not even the first character you talk to that is mentioning movement keys while those keys remain unavailable to you!
I rage quit after unlocking `w,b,e` and moving back to that chest at the beginning only to realize I had forgotten there was a space between the word and punctuation meaning I'd need to unlock something like `B`, `0`, `^`, or even the ability to use numbers which a character had already mentioned to me...
[1/10] do not recommend. I believe most people will be able to read half of `vimtutor` before you will unlock the `b` key in this game as well as have a much better understanding of how vim actually works.
I highly suggest vimtutor to people because what a lot of people miss while learning vim is that there isn't actually much to remember. There's sets of motion keys and sets of command keys. The beauty of vim is that the commands are putting these together. For example, say you learn `b,w,e` and then you learn `d`. You now automatically know `db, dw, de, dd`. You didn't learn 4 new things, you learned 1 new thing. Similarly learning `B,W,E` isn't learning 3 new things, you learn one new thing: capitalized motion keys work on WORDS instead of words (aka: big movements)
Even though I don’t have much use for vim, and I have opinions on tools like this going beyond a certain level of efficiency because IMO the true bottleneck is usually decision/design based not implementation based, this just kinda looks fun and the appeal of vim as just a thing that feels cool to use when you have mastery of it sounds cool. Kinda like how it feels good to play an instrument when you’re good at it, o…
However, not everything can be well designed at the beginning. Skills of editing will affect efficiency, especially in a try-and-error loop of new ideas/approaches, where only a rough design exists.
Besides, some niche editing tasks (which may involve column editing, macro recording then batched execution, regex based operation, encoding transformation etc.) may otherwise require writing awk/sed or even perl/python scripts as subprojects to achieve, if one does not known the editor well.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/
I'm in busybox and on OpenBSD quite a bit, and all the vim embellishments would be a clutter of my neurons.
Very cool site! Working on my own similar project: https://vimgolf.ai To learn new vim motions. Have since gotten distracted by life, but need to actually finish it.
The required login/sign-up, privacy policy and lack of apparent open-sourcing seems antithetical for the average Linux user. You're going after a niche of a niche of a niche with this one, good luck lol.
I really don't want to learn much more of vi than is documented in the POSIX standard: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/ I'm in busybox and on OpenBSD quite a bit, and all the vim embellishments would be a clutter of my neurons.
That vi was standardized was one of the many failures of POSIX as an idea. The very idea that we should freeze a text editor for all time is silliness in the extreme.
Hopefully it's easy to fix