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I think it’s common to get overwhelmed with all of vims features. For me, focusing on one thing at a time helped. For example, spend a day where instead of repe

I think it’s common to get overwhelmed with all of vims features. For me, focusing on one thing at a time helped. For example, spend a day where instead of repeatedly doing: A,<esc>j to add commas to the end of lines, learn to do it in visual block mode. It’ll be annoying and fiddly the first 5 times. But it quickly becomes muscle memory. That said, if you’ve been trying vim seriously for ~15 years, maybe it just isn’t your thing.

tomrod 4y ago
> if you’ve been trying vim seriously for ~15 years To clarify and to be fair to vim, it's a few days to a little over a week of effort every 8 months to two years or so. I'll get the bug to ascend in my coding speed after reading an article like this one, check to see if I still have .vimrc from the last time I tried to configure it for things like syntax highlighting, spaces instead of tabs, etc., then give it a roll.