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Hey! This thread keeps popping up! Yay :D In another thread someone recommended me vimtutor isntead of this game. I played both, and for learning I like vimtut
by mettamage 9y ago
Hey! This thread keeps popping up! Yay :D
In another thread someone recommended me vimtutor isntead of this game. I played both, and for learning I like vimtutor much more.
To people who don't know vimtutor allow me to explain :)
Vim Adventures still gave me the feeling that vim takes 5+ years to learn and you need to be crazy dedicated and good to understand vim. That's not the fault of Vim Adventures, that's the fault of the folklore that surrounds vim (e.g. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/curves.jpg http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads... )
30 minutes of vimtutor and I felt that I had "basic vim skills" and that I "could manage myself in a vim editor." I thought it would take 2 years to get these skills. In other words, if you feel you have realistic expectations about how hard it is to learn vim, try vimtutor!
That said this is a fun game!
- wolfgke 9y ago> That's not the fault of Vim Adventures, that's the fault of the folklore that surrounds vim (e.g. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads.. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads.... ) Archived link: http://web.archive.org/web/20160311183833/http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/curves.jpg http://web.archive.org/web/20160311183833/http://www.termina...
- vedharish 9y agoI cannot access (terminally-incoherent) link. Can you provide an alternate one?
- vedharish 9y agonvm. Thanks [wolfgke](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wolfgke https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wolfgke)
- boomboomsubban 9y agoFor people who don't know, vimtutor is generally installed with vim. So if you have vim, just put `vimtutor` in the command linr and add the two letter language code if you want something besides English.
- kurtisc 9y agoHaving only played the demo of vim adventure, I felt like it was more of a drill of what you should do (to use Vim effectively) whereas vimtutor is what you can do, meaning it leaves you a lot quicker.