With school and personal projects I often find my self in similar positions. I have been working on becoming proficient using Vim and what helped is using the

With school and personal projects I often find my self in similar positions. I have been working on becoming proficient using Vim and what helped is using the Vim plugins for each editor. I pretty much forced myself to use Vim or some derivative for every thing I do and it has worked wonders so far. The link for the netbeans plug-in is here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3653 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3653 It is a java implementation of vim and works pretty well. The plugin for ecplipse places an instance of Vim withing the editor window but I found it was quite buggy and slowed things down a bit (at least on my laptop). I don't know if there is a plug in for visual studio but you could check. I am so glad I forced my self to use it because it payed off. Just keep a cheat sheet by your side and within a few days you will at least be able to get stuff done, and then just pick up a new trick each day to really learn to fly. Just start now because once you get going you will wish you made the leap sooner.