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Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by Skoofoo » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 9:26 PM UTC

Learned a few new commands from this, thank you!

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by AlwaysBCoding » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 9:27 PM UTC

swah wrote: post #16

AlwaysBCoding wrote: post #3

If you really want to learn VIM check out vim-adventures.com a truly interactive vim tutorial.

Is your nickname a reference to Glengarry Glen Ross?

coffee is for coders.

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by Aardwolf » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 9:31 PM UTC

It's not very realistic, it's way too easy to close it!

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by muyuu » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 11:20 PM UTC

johncoltrane wrote: post #15

This thing is just as useless now as it was when it launched and was first featured here, one year ago (1). If you want to learn Vim's basics, just run the following command in your terminal as many times as needed to feel comfortable and force yourself to use Vim for gradually more complex and critical tasks: $ vimtutor (1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3043866

Does that work on Windows? (honest question, cannot try since I don't have any Windows machine handy).

If not, then it's not useless.

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by JanneVee » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 11:40 PM UTC

jaequery wrote: post #17

tutorials should teach to use ctrl+[ instead of ESC. it makes a big difference.

Should teach both some keyboards layouts are awkward when it comes to the [ key.

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by achal » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 12:18 AM UTC

muyuu wrote: post #24

johncoltrane wrote: post #15

This thing is just as useless now as it was when it launched and was first featured here, one year ago (1). If you want to learn Vim's basics, just run the following command in your terminal as many times as needed to feel comfortable and force yourself to use Vim for gradually more complex and critical tasks: $ vimtutor (1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3043866

Does that work on Windows? (honest question, cannot try since I don't have any Windows machine handy). If not, then it's not useless.

Yes, it does (except you have to look for it in %programfiles(x86)%, and then it opens in a graphical window that doesn't take your .vimrc/.gvimrc into account)

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by baby » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 1:10 AM UTC

Anyone has something like for EMACS? I've been through the tutorial already but I'm looking for new ways to learn it.

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by nbouscal » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 1:39 AM UTC

mateuszf wrote: post #20

jaequery wrote: post #17

tutorials should teach to use ctrl+[ instead of ESC. it makes a big difference.

ctrl+c is even better (in my opinion). In theory it doesn't work in every place ESC works, but I haven't noticed such places. Also ctrl+j works as ENTER. It does make a big difference to me.

You can also just map and not have to ever worry about the edge cases.

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by wfn » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 3:05 AM UTC

achal wrote: post #26

muyuu wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that work on Windows? (honest question, cannot try since I don't have any Windows machine handy). If not, then it's not useless.

Yes, it does (except you have to look for it in %programfiles(x86)%, and then it opens in a graphical window that doesn't take your .vimrc/.gvimrc into account)

(It seems that vimtutor on Linux also doesn't take your .vimrc into account; I think that's by design?)

Re: Interactive Vim Tutorial

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Post by gnur » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 1:07 PM UTC

jaequery wrote: post #17

tutorials should teach to use ctrl+[ instead of ESC. it makes a big difference.

Or you could remap your capslock to ESC. It is possible in Windows, OS X & Linux and really makes a big difference. ESC is really usefull when it is in reach, even in windows.