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The 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 s
by Aperocky 5y ago
The 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.