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Are you vimming yet? (feddit.org)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I always forget about :wq, mainly because escing out of interactive mode and hitting ZZ is so much quicker.