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Songs about Vim (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by chraebsli@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Crow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 8 months ago

Or, hear me out, : because you're doing a command, and then q for quit. Probably make it wq too, to write and quit

[-] chraebsli@programming.dev 12 points 8 months ago

did you know there is a vim tutor for learning how to vim?

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

vimtutor, which I believe is installed with vim by default

Edit: My brain apparently inserted an extra word that made it seem like you were seeking said program. Leaving it though for those wondering in the future.

[-] Crow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, but imo the best way to learn vim is to do it as you go. You only really need to know getting in and out of insert and how to write and quit. Once you've got that, if you wanna do something and think there's probably a better way than moving there with the arrow keys, look it up on the Internet, remember the thing, do it a few times and you've learned a new thing about vim. "Surely there's a search and replace function" yeah, is substitute with the s command. "I wanna navigate quicker within lines" use f, t and their capital versions. Combine with the quickscope plugin and you're golden. Learn the stuff you want to use, don't memorize commands you don't need

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Forgot

Escape first, because it wants to keep you inside the matrix and you need to tell it you are trying to escape

Because you probably don’t want to save whatever you’ve accidentally done to that file trying to quit, and you have to add an exclamation point because unless you yell loudly at vim it won’t listen