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It is super hard because everything you're used to from your regular editor or browser commands don't apply. So all your muscle memory is useless. That might s
by icc97 9y ago
It is super hard because everything you're used to from your regular editor or browser commands don't apply. So all your muscle memory is useless.
That might sound like it's easy to overcome but it's not and it's super frustrating until you get out of one groove into the other.
- sevensor 9y agoI think a huge reason people find this difficult is that it's being presented alongside a whole bunch of other ideas. Even the fairly minimalistic vimtutor goes off the rails after lesson 1. Most of the stuff in that tutorial could wait until you've been using vim for a month or longer. Learn the movement keys, learn to enter and exit insert mode, learn to delete text, and learn to save and quit. Trying to learn that and at the same time trying to learn about how commands are composed of actions and motions, or how to use plugins, or buffers, or regex, or anything else, is going to cause you to stumble over the basics.