I started out like this. In effect in the beginning you can do everything in edit mode, you don't actually need the key bindings. Pretty much the only thing I l

I started out like this. In effect in the beginning you can do everything in edit mode, you don't actually need the key bindings. Pretty much the only thing I learnt was 'dd' to delete a line (which actually just cuts the line). The other very simple thing is just typing '/' and then searching. It's much simpler and more natural once you're used to it than Ctrl+F. Then further searching is just hitting '/' again instead of F3. Firefox has the same command that you can use, just hit '/' and you can start searching. Underlying this though, is a very useful and powerful editor that's there and waiting for you to use if you want to invest the time. I come from a Windows world so wrote up a table of comparable commands [1]. Edit: It is also pretty cool however, that if you install Vim on Windows (it gets installed as part of Git) and with a bit of Solarized colours [2] you can get a IDE level editor in your DOS prompt [3]. It blew my mind anyway. [1]: https://ianchanning.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/vi-commands-for-the-windows-user/ [2]: https://github.com/neilpa/cmd-colors-solarized/ [3]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765571/images/screenshots/2016-10-17%2020_32_05-Make%20me%20a%20sandwich%20-%20vim%20%20DNA.hs.png