Step one should be to get it out of your head that vim is hard or hard to learn. Sitting with my son, years ago, I got him doing simple editing of files for me

Step one should be to get it out of your head that vim is hard or hard to learn. Sitting with my son, years ago, I got him doing simple editing of files for me proficiently in less than five minutes. Deleting words and lines and selecting whole paragraphs and sections. Copying and pasting. He was 15. vim is easy.