Programmer Humor

But how did you close it?

Yeah yeah, brag about being able to close VI the first time of use...

You need to type i first to enter insert mode.

And you weren't curious about how it worked? Not at all?

Yes, you vom.

If you dont know how to exit vim, then yes you are...

It's a text editor. It all began with the ed editor, which is very simple and does one thing, it edits files. Then someone extended it into the ex editor. Then someone added a new feature: being able to visually see the file you're editing, which became vi, the visual editor. Then someone improved that, into vim. What began as an editor where you needed to be fluent in regular expressions but otherwise was simple, is now a very complex editor, moving the functionality of the old UNIX tools into the editor itself.

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

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:

There are plenty of cheat sheets online. The main thing is understanding that there are different modes, knowing what they do, and how to switch between them and issue commands.

I became a fan after I got used to nice color schemes, buffers/tabs, horizontal/vertical splitting, file browsing with NERDTree and highlighting changes with GITGutter.

You ask for tips? Add VIM commands you use regularly (like paste mode toggle for example) to a keyboard shortcut (like leader key + p) in your .vimrc settings file. It increases working speed.
Also add some plugins, they are fun and add useful functions from other editors like Sublime (ctrl-p, vim-multiple-cursors).

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

Can't stop won't stop

Progress lost

Sorry bub, but you just wasted your time

fellow noun->verb user :)

helix superiority however.

How do you like it? I tried it a few years ago, but my vim muscular memory made it feel as uncomfortable as learning vim for the first time.