Tried the challenge mode - would like to see support for Ctrl + [, acting as escape!
VIM Master
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#62Learned vim with a game like this. It was a vscode extension, I don’t remember what it was called. Anyway it’s easily the best time investment I’ve ever made, period. Takes a couple days of messing around, and you can basically never leave modal editing behind! It’s just so much better. I’m still not even a vim master. Just the basic motions and commands are enough to never want to give em up. Throw macros and regist…
> I’m still not even a vim master.
Joking aside, I think that's one of the nice things about vim. There's always more to learn. Not in the way that you're missing something but in the same way this is true for any programming language. It's because these tools are so flexible they can do just about anything
Re: VIM Master
#63Tried the challenge mode - would like to see support for Ctrl + [, acting as escape!
Also on team !
Why remap? This is native. Maybe your keyboard has brackets in a tough place but that also makes it sound like it's hard to use arrays
Re: VIM Master
#64Learned vim with a game like this. It was a vscode extension, I don’t remember what it was called. Anyway it’s easily the best time investment I’ve ever made, period. Takes a couple days of messing around, and you can basically never leave modal editing behind! It’s just so much better. I’m still not even a vim master. Just the basic motions and commands are enough to never want to give em up. Throw macros and regist…
Searching for "vim game" this is the only thing I found:
Vscode Vim Academy
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kaisun.v...
Does that look like what you used?
Re: VIM Master
#65I got the muscle memory for hjkl down by playing https://vimsnake.com/
Re: VIM Master
#66Here's 8 chapters on how to exit Vim: https://github.com/cloudstreet-dev/Vim-with-Vigor
What I don't understand is how anyone who actually learned the basic movements can go back to using arrows or mouse to move inside text. Like sure, use VScode but if you actually took the time and know how to move in vim when will vanilla editing beat vim plugins for popular editors?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>ReaperWare What does this mean? All I found on the Google was a company that produces sim racing gear.
Presumable the pricing model for Reaper? https://www.reaper.fm/purchase.php
Re: VIM Master
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> vimtutor is to Babbel what this is to duolingo It took me half a minute to realize that you probably meant "vimtutor is to VIM master what Babbel is to duolingo".
Isn't it exactly the same thing? If a:b=c:d then a:c=b:d.
The problem is that it's not the relationship between vimtutor and Babbel that you're comparing to the relationship between vimmaster and Duolingo.
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#69These 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.
> learning when I can be doing something more efficiently
hardtime.nvim[1] (or vim-hardtime[2] if you're old-school) do exactly this but within your editing session. There's an associated blog post[3] explaining the rationale behind some of the workflow choices and you can of course bring your own.
[1]: https://github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.nvim
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#70ed Master when?