Why I use vim
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Why I use vim
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Re: Why I use vim
#2The speed increase on paragraph editing capabilities is really attracting versus pointing your mouse to do everything. I'm gonna give it a shot, thanks.
Re: Why I use vim
#3The speed increase on paragraph editing capabilities is really attracting versus pointing your mouse to do everything. I'm gonna give it a shot, thanks.
If you're just starting, I strongly recommend you go through vimtutor. After installing vim, just type "vimtutor" in your shell.
Then, head over to #vim on freenode.net with any questions. Even simply lurking in that channel is a great education.
Re: Why I use vim
#4This is helpful, particularly the resources listed, but I would advise against using someone else's config starting out. Continually editing my own .vimrc for the first few months was a big part of learning. If you use someone else's dotfiles right from the start, there's a good chance you'll end up believing some behaviour is default when it really isn't, and that's going to mess you up.
Re: Why I use vim
#5The speed increase on paragraph editing capabilities is really attracting versus pointing your mouse to do everything. I'm gonna give it a shot, thanks.
It took me two weeks before I finally grew comfortable with vim, so don't get discouraged. Start off by treating it as a regular text editor. Use the arrow keys to move around, use control (windows) or option (mac) + arrow keys to quickly move between words, etc. Slowly introduce a few vim shortcuts at a time. It was also helpful for me to write the commands on a whiteboard or a post it and have it on my monitor as reference.
Re: Why I use vim
#6This is helpful, particularly the resources listed, but I would advise against using someone else's config starting out. Continually editing my own .vimrc for the first few months was a big part of learning. If you use someone else's dotfiles right from the start, there's a good chance you'll end up believing some behaviour is default when it really isn't, and that's going to mess you up.
That was a huge mistake for me when first learning vim. If you start with someone else's .vimrc, you will run into a lot more "FML, what is going on" experiences that you should.
Re: Why I use vim
#7There's a bad link in the article. The link to "Vim My new IDE" should be:
Re: Why I use vim
#8Every week there's some post like this, or "why I switched back and forth between Vim and Textmate 17 times", and, frankly, I just don't see the merit in it. Are you trying to get other people to use the editor you like?
Re: Why I use vim
#9Every week there's some post like this, or "why I switched back and forth between Vim and Textmate 17 times", and, frankly, I just don't see the merit in it. Are you trying to get other people to use the editor you like?
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Re: Why I use vim
#10This is helpful, particularly the resources listed, but I would advise against using someone else's config starting out. Continually editing my own .vimrc for the first few months was a big part of learning. If you use someone else's dotfiles right from the start, there's a good chance you'll end up believing some behaviour is default when it really isn't, and that's going to mess you up.
Agreed. There's a great post Vim: revisited with a minimal .vimrc file that I used after having to start over learning Vim because of using someone else's .vimrc I didn't need or fully understand: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/12/vim-revisited/