Always postponed learning vim. For my new job I need to know how to work with vim.

Finally a reason not to postpone anymore!

There was some e-book in the keybase group

I always favored emacs. But when git forces me to edit something or add and commit on the command line, vi would always pop up... and I'm always like 'FML!'

Most people say that exiting vim is the hardest part, I would say that remember to hit i to enter edit mode is the hardest part for me lol.
Two months straight using only vim and I still manage to fuck my code because of this.

Am I a sinner for using nano for the small stuff?

@Data-Bound I am always using nano 😂

@mrstebo everytime People talk about vi I feel like using notepad while they use atom

@linuxx remember Shift+Z+Z.

@Data-Bound Nano is awesome. Sometimes all you need is simplicity. Otherwise I do use Vim.

My fellow human, watch this https://youtube.com/watch/...

@Noob there are three X's in @linuxxx

I was going to say I wish I was able to use Vim at work to get my practice in, but I work with Visual Studio. Now it turns out that VsVim is a thing. Problem solved!

@linuxxx why do you tag yourself in your own rant? 😵

http://vimcasts.org/
enjoy

@deus don't forget the most important one, :q! to quit without saving changes. :^)

@deus better throw a sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / and start from scratch :D

@gitblame

I have to look into this :)

@ewpratten I've been talking to an imposter!

@Archer04, :q! is pretty important when you're starting to learn vim and still make weird mistakes like deleting whole lines and stuff like that. That should be the first command to teach.

@Eariel yep, I have to use it when I mistakenly change something while being out of edit mode. And most of the time when I'm closing Vim is when my code works, so if there's an unwanted change I can safely close it without making a mess.

Here's what I think are the essentials
(I'll use <n> for any number, ANY number)

:q to quit

:w to save

:wq works too

:q! To quit without saving or force quit.

:o <path> to open another file

:split <path> to open a file on half of the screen

:vsplit (same but vertically)

<hjkl> to move

<n><hjkl> to move n times

w to move one word

<n>w to move n words

$ to go to end of line

o to open a new line

gg to go to the first line

<n>gg to go to row number <n>

G to go to the last line

yy to yank(copy) a line

p to paste a line

dd to delete a line (you can also paste it with p later)

<w | hjkl | $ | G >d to delete words | in a direction | till the end of line | till the end of the document. (you can also use <n> before w to delete n words, for example)

u to undo

ctrl+r to redo

There's more commands but these are a good start. You can also have fun configuring the ~/.vimrc.

PS: I'm pretty sure you can combine yank with w and <n>. And welcome to vim!

@deus yeah, at first it is a bit challenging but the utility they give is great and when you figure out most of the key bindings actually make sense it's just second nature.

Wait, you are forced to use vim? Can't you use emacs or any other thing? 🤔

So sorry for you , jk, always nice to learn new things

@greenhouse why not use magit?