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Does the “Learn Vim the Hard Way” website still exist?
I’ve been looking and can only find “Learn Vimscript The Hard Way”.
The website I remember had a man in front of some control panel, maybe wearing a space suite, and started with a section named something like “Learn to Crawl”.
Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
- i_love_unix 3y agoEveryone’s throwing in a vim learning resource so I suppose I’ll join in with this: Learn Vim the Smart Way - https://learnvim.irian.to/ https://learnvim.irian.to/
- d4rti 3y agoThere is the vim adventures site https://vim-adventures.com/ https://vim-adventures.com/ but it doesn’t sound quite like what you are looking for.
- lampshades 3y agoThis is how I learned Vim a decade ago. Highly recommend.
- filchermcurr 3y agoIt's also pretty expensive. $30 for 6 months, I believe. At least a year would be a somewhat more attractive value proposition. But they must be doing fine with that pricing, it's been around forever. So good for them!
- mattl 3y agohttps://learncodethehardway.org https://learncodethehardway.org I don't know if there was a vim book. There's a Unix book.
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- mrklein 3y agohttps://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/
- manofmanysmiles 3y agoDid the site change to become this? So far that’s my best guess I’d what happened.
- drdeca 3y agoLooking at Wayback Machine, it appears that this book has existed (with this title, at this url) since at least October 2011, and that that version does not appear to have referenced anything with the title "Learn Vim the Hard Way".
- aydio 3y agoYou may be looking for "Learn Vim Progressively" by Yann Esposito. It's also how I got into Vim almost 10 years ago. https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/ https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressi...
- manofmanysmiles 3y agoWow, you’re right, thank you so much!
- Exuma 3y agoDamn …… add something to end of every line was the only one I didn’t know. Fuck I’ve needed that
- suprjami 3y agoSame! I love this site and am currently rewriting my own Vim tutorial to be like this but more specific.
- otterpro 3y agoThat astronaut in the photo is Steve Austin from 6 Million Man Dollar Man. Vim the Six Billion Dollar editor > Better, Stronger, Faster.
- alhirzel 3y agoUnrelated to Vim but reminds me of https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way/ https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Wa...
- proprietario 3y agowow thank you so much, I read through the whole article and was finally able to grok monads!
- riffic 3y agogoogle can't seem to find it but it did find this which seems up your alley: https://danielmiessler.com/p/vim/ https://danielmiessler.com/p/vim/
- Guybrush_T 3y agoAre you implying there is an easy way to learn Vim? :) I remember the "Learn Python the Hard Way" web-site, but I'm having trouble even finding that. It looks like there is a book and a course instead. I wonder if the web-site version of these courses were eventually phased out? This might be a good alternative: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/vim/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/vim/
- pipes 3y agohttps://learnpythonthehardway.org/ https://learnpythonthehardway.org/ Googled "zed Shaw learn python the hardest" He has learn c the hardware too and a few others Surprised your search didn't work, he was sort of well known for those books, and the "programming mother fucker" website Oh wait, here it is http://programming-motherfucker.com/ http://programming-motherfucker.com/
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- riffic 3y agosearch by the author (zed shaw).
- Guybrush_T 3y agoSorry I wasn't very clear, but I can't find the old version of the web-site by Zed Shaw. It was a free tutorial and it sounds like it was in the same format that the OP was looking for. I can find the current web-site for the paid course and book.
- brudgers 3y agoMy experience is Shaw adjusts availability of his work over time. Given the strong opinions the internet including HN, often expresses about him, I understand why he might choose to do so. He might as well get paid for suffering ad hominem I guess. And it’s entirely reasonable to reduce the attack surface.