It's worth it. Once you grok it, you'll be composing new movements + actions and before long you will be 'thinking in vim'. You also need a very small subset of

It's worth it. Once you grok it, you'll be composing new movements + actions and before long you will be 'thinking in vim'. You also need a very small subset of stuff to begin being useful (actions, moments, modes). After that learn about macros/registers, buffers and windows and you're pretty much good to go.