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It's highly overstated how hard it is to learn imo. I would learn it again without a doubt.
by cgag 8y ago
It's highly overstated how hard it is to learn imo. I would learn it again without a doubt.
- mattbreeden 8y agoI ran 'vimtutor' twice and felt comfortable enough to switch. I think the only reason people think it's so difficult is they maybe try to go too deep too fast?
- remar 8y agoMost of the people I've talked to who gave up on trying to learn vim didn't even know vimtutor existed.
- didymospl 8y agoI repeated vimtutor for a few days in a row trying to following this nice Vim learning plan [1] I saw on HN and I gave up trying to switch to Vim as my main text editor after that. Even though I knew how to perform most of the basic operations, the fact I had to switch to normal mode to do anything more complex than editing of the current line felt just too unusual to me. I mean, I'm comfortable editing files on remote servers in Vim now but I don't think I'd ever be considerably more productive in Vim than in IntelliJ/Sublime. [1] https://medium.com/actualize-network/how-to-learn-vim-a-four-week-plan-cd8b376a9b85 https://medium.com/actualize-network/how-to-learn-vim-a-four...