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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.
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Cool that you're into retrocomputing, but many of the rest of us think perhaps some features added to vim from the last 30 years might be useful. 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.
While you may be a detractor, Apple appears to be an ardent admirer. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
But Vim is not merely a tool... it's a discipline. A lifestyle. It is not learned in an afternoon, nor in a weekend sprint of neon-highlighted tutorials. No, Vim is best learned like one reads a long, weathered tome: slowly, reverently, one page at a time.
It begins humbly: i to whisper your intentions. :wq to seal your work with a sacred rite. Then, perhaps days or weeks later, a revelation: "Wait… I can delete four lines with 4dd?!"
You do not master Vim. You grow into it. Each new keystroke discovered is like finding a hidden passage in a familiar castle. What begins as a cryptic incantation eventually becomes second nature... muscle memory and magic intertwined.
So yes, make it a game. But know that Vim is not beaten. It is befriended over years, not minutes.
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.
Cool that you're into retrocomputing, but many of the rest of us think perhaps some features added to vim from the last 30 years might be useful. 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.
I generally recommend to exit either via :xa (save all & exit) or :qa! (discard all and exit), bound to ZZ or ZA respectively. If you exit via :q or :wq, it just closes the current buffer, and moves to the next one. E.g. if you have a neotree open along with the editor, you type :wq, it closes the editor buffer and moves you into the file tree, which can be very confusing for beginners.
just do :wq :wq :wq :wq etc :P
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just do :wq :wq :wq :wq etc :P
:wqa is the same as :xa and is probably easier to remember
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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'd argue that the average Linux user likely knows how to use vim for the most basic editing but isn't necessarily motivated to learn vim. Intermediate users will be able to name a few modes in vim and navigate somewhat efficiently, that's about it. Only advanced users and those who really want to master vim (in other words, hardcore nerds) will try to make the most out of vim and use as few strokes as possible to na…
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I'd argue that the average Linux user likely knows how to use vim for the most basic editing but isn't necessarily motivated to learn vim. Intermediate users will be able to name a few modes in vim and navigate somewhat efficiently, that's about it. Only advanced users and those who really want to master vim (in other words, hardcore nerds) will try to make the most out of vim and use as few strokes as possible to na…
I think once you start trying to use the occasional macro and/or make custom keybinds it pushes you further into the vim golf mindset. When you're saving an action to be repeated 100 times you really gotta get it right. I learned a lot of advanced movements due to macros as well. Like } and ) and marks (only just recently learned apostrophe jumps to marked line while backtick jumps to marked character on the line aft…