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Use this to learn vim: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com The parent's site offers nothing productive,
by bstar77 14y ago
Use this to learn vim:
http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com
The parent's site offers nothing productive, in fact I think it causes more confusion with it's terrible UI, terrible content and erratic layout. I feel bad for being so critical, but resources like this are why learning vim was so hard in the first place. Why, when I click on the gigantic "Learn Vim Now" text, am I not directed to some actual learning resources?
- zanny 14y agoIt says this within the first paragraph: > It is not a guide to using Vim. Before reading this book you should be comfortable editing text in Vim I think a site like the OP (even if it is shitty) is aimed more at the "I know what vim is, maybe I did visudo once and cried a bunch, but I have never touched it" crowd.
- bstar77 14y agoThen what is it for exactly? Vim has a bad enough reputation as being obtuse and antique. Sites like this just reinforce that perception.
- bradleyland 14y agoNo, the fact that you're being obtuse is giving you a bad reputation. Vim is a very powerful and flexible editor. The site you linked to os titled Learn Vim script The Hard Way. Vimscript is not Vim, it is the scripting language used to customize Vim. Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not necessarily defending Vim here. The learning curve is steep, but the "evidence" you're providing here only illustrates that you can't spot differences in basic nouns (Vim versus Vimscript). This is a challenge that any reasonably skilled problem solver would have resolved with one Google query and 5 minutes of reading.