How to Learn Vim: A Four Week Plan
I've had a completely different approach to learning vim, which I wholeheartedly recommend:- learn the bare minimum: up, down, left, right, deleting words and lines, stuff you do everyday- DON'T just look for tutorials learn stuff out in the void, you'll waste time since you'll end up forgetting 95% of it. don't distract yourself. Screw four week plans, the basics you can get in an hour.- work. write code/stuff. whenever you catch yourself pressing a button > 3 times (you know, left-left-left-left or something like that) THEN look for a better solution. you'll discover plenty ways to navigate around the code you're working with. find a new way, stop looking, start using it.- happy? no pain points? good. keep using vim, wait until you find something you'd like to improve. look for a solution.The point is... just because vim can do something, doesn't mean you need to know it. It doesn't mean you need to use it. It's a tool, it's optional.The other point I guess is... stop worrying so much about if you're using something "right". Are you happy with your workflow? Good! That's what we're aiming for.These plans and intros and guides... it's almost like they're meant to overwhelm. It's a damn text editor, you can use 4 commands and be happy. There are no rewards and no raises for "knowing" 60%+ of vim's feature set. And after the basic what, 20%? it's diminishing returns anyway.