It was the same for me, for a long time. I've just used vim for commit messages since I was to lazy to change $EDITOR. Then, I can't even remember why exactly,

It was the same for me, for a long time. I've just used vim for commit messages since I was to lazy to change $EDITOR. Then, I can't even remember why exactly, I've taken a few weeks to actually learn the basics. The first few months were a little awkward, since I wasn't as efficient as I was in Sublime Text (which I've used at the time), but I also started to miss some vim keybindings in other editors. After a while, everything clicked and now I have vim keybindings in almost every program where it's even remotely possible. (Shoutout to tridactyl[1]). I think the most important part is to slog through a couple of longer coding sessions, like you said. (Although vimtutor is a good start, as well, and a colleague of mine got started using vim adventures[2]) [1] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl [2] https://vim-adventures.com/ https://vim-adventures.com/