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Always felt the best way to learn vim is to just use it.
by Aperocky 5y ago
Always felt the best way to learn vim is to just use it.
- penjelly 5y agotrue, but mixing things up can sometimes be fun too
- maccard 5y agoI'm a beginner to intermediate level vim user (well, vim bindings user), and while this is true, you don't know what you don't know.
- Aperocky 5y agoThe question is: do you need to know? I handily accept that I don't know a big part of vim. At the same time I use it daily and went as far as developing vim script to automate stuff that are repetitive to me. Vim bindings are quite easy to pick up and fairly straightforward though, but that should just take a cheat sheet and some usage.
- maccard 5y agoLet's say I want to go to the end of a word. I can press L some number of times until the cursor goes to the end of the word, or I can press E once. If I just "use" vim, how will I discover that? (Contrived example of course) Another super simple example is replacing a word. Let's say I know how to delete, how to word, and how to enter insert mode. Putting that together I get dwi - except using cw achieves the same thing.
- Aperocky 5y agoThat's where the cheat sheet come in, all of these basic concepts are condensed and is literally everywhere. Now, almost every single key has it's use and I likely only have muscle memory on about 20 keys, when it gets to the vim command line, I know even less. But I'm not quite worried about it.
- Symmetry 5y agoSpending a week on an island in the middle of the Pacific with very little internet really got me to appreciate :help.
- hutrdvnj 5y agoBut I think it's important to gradually use vim. If you're new to vim leave your IDE installed.