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Are you vimming yet? (feddit.org)

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[–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tried neovim a couple of times. Stopped after 10 or 15 mins. Anyone has useful tips to get used to vim/neovim?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 week ago

Just get used to

using movement (hjkl),
going between insert and normal modes (i and esc),
undoing (u from normal mode),
and saving (:w and :wq).

Don't try to do it all at first, just get comfortable with the essentials. You can even just stay in insert mode (the only mode in most editors) at first.

Keep a vim basics cheat sheet handy for a couple weeks as you're building in muscle memory, then slowly work in more advanced techniques and combinations.

It doesn't take long before you start having a lot of fun just manipulating text.

PS here's a decently basic cheat sheet I found: image describing basic vim keyboard bindings and commands

[–] akkajdh999@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago

Pro Tip: to learn to do something, practice doing it

[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Go through the tutorial. It is quite good and teaches things incrementally with real world examples. Just run vimtutor to start.