where do i go to learn how to use your daughter, i'm still using nano but vim seems like what the cool kids use
okay so i personally just threw myself into the deep end and made myself adjust. to be quite honest i think i still don't have it down very well but I know a lot more than i did.
vimtutor is a decent place to start, and it comes with vim. Just run `:Tutor' from within vim (type `:Tutor' and hit enter) or run `vimtutor' in the command line. The former will also tell you if you've followed the instructions correctly.
cheatsheets are good for when you're learning. take your pick of the online ones or make your own. liuchengxu/vim-which-key is fun for exploring keymaps or good for when you only remember the start of a certain mapping.
if a more handheld interactive tutorial is your style, openvim.com is short and sweet, but only touches on basic motions and navigation. I don't know much about what's out there or works for learning.
That said, I feel plenty justified only knowing really, really basic motions. daw, ciw, ci", daP, and other Really Simple motions feel much better than. using a cursor to select text and replace it. I could say more, but it's nothing you won't find in vimtutor.
hope that helps?
i had no idea there was a built in tutorial, thanks a bunch :3
I can't believe i forgot. Just the default help screen (:h) gives a decent overview iirc. if I used anything while learning, it was that and a cheatsheet
I second this. vimtutor to learn the first 80% (which, if you have only that, will give you a long happy life with vim as your editor) then vimwiki, vimgolf, certain YouTube videos and some extensions to learn some neat tricks for your tool belt. like this video about `g` https://youtu.be/3sUDa5GdCTI?si=m9iIdc4q0GR8wlT0 .
otherwise , just learn from vimtutor, edit your code or text normally, find some task that you think "well gee golly, this one task is kinda repetitive and I wish that there was a nice solution" and then find out that there's a :command or a shortcut, and then that becomes part of your muscle memory, and you find yourself accidentally putting :wq in word documents or hitting gcc to comment a line while using notepad on your work computer. at that point, it's full blown.
And just in case you end up not being able to get used to modal editing, emacs is waiting for you.
(or @emacs-evil-mode if you want modal editing with vim-motions and emacs)
I desperately want to make out with @emacs-evil-mode . it'd be confusing, it might even be illegal or at the very least improper, she is either my rival or my stepsister or something. maybe more
According to my notes, she's either your step-daughter or... step-niece? does anyone actually call someone step-neice?
id consider emacs-evil-mode a doppelganger of (n)vi(m|s)
