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It took me two weeks before I finally grew comfortable with vim, so don't get discouraged. Start off by treating it as a regular text editor. Use the arrow keys
by rickyc091 15y ago
It took me two weeks before I finally grew comfortable with vim, so don't get discouraged. Start off by treating it as a regular text editor. Use the arrow keys to move around, use control (windows) or option (mac) + arrow keys to quickly move between words, etc. Slowly introduce a few vim shortcuts at a time. It was also helpful for me to write the commands on a whiteboard or a post it and have it on my monitor as reference.
- re_todd 15y agoYeah, having them written down off to the side helped me finally learn vim. There are many vim cheat sheets out there via a quick google that I wish I would have used starting out.