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well, I am using vim, but I don’t know how to use vim.
Am I vimming?
Yes, you vom.
They vom it.
If you dont know how to exit vim, then yes you are…
:what^C^C^C^Z^Z^C^ESCFFUUUUUUUUUU...I remember that experience first time and how I had to kill the process from another shell :)
This was before the internet so couldn’t exactly google it either.
Fun times. But I figured it out by reading the man page.
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unrepentant nano gang rise up
The first time I used VI I typed a few characters, then hit backspace to delete some characters. Backspace doesn’t delete characters. I closed VI and never opened it again.
But how did you close it?
Carpenter’s axe to the utility line outside my house
As a long-time vim enjoyer, I like your gusto. Imagine if you could apply regexes to that carpenter’s axe.
(Also, what sort? Do you have one of those awesome Gransfors Bruks ones?)
And you weren’t curious about how it worked? Not at all?
A million better alternatives exist. I was curious about them.
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Tried neovim a couple of times. Stopped after 10 or 15 mins. Anyone has useful tips to get used to vim/neovim?
Pro Tip: to learn to do something, practice doing it
Go through the tutorial. It is quite good and teaches things incrementally with real world examples. Just run vimtutor to start.
But why learn all that? Nano user here.
Depends how much time you spend in a text editor. If it is just for a few config edits and stuff, honestly there is little reason to learn. The real benefit is if you spend a lot of time editing text due to the time saved using more powerful commands. There is the additional benefit that vi/vim is installed on practically any Linux box, so you will almost always have a familiar editor to hand in an unfamiliar environment.
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’m always vimming!
Not because I want to though. It’s because I don’t know how to stop…
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I kakoune instead.
fellow noun->verb user :)
helix superiority however.
Pitch me. I could switch, but it would help a great deal to understand more about why. I’m open to change, but not eager to change.
purple 🟣
Rust 🦀🦀🦀
🪢 :q!
Progress lost
i do all my vimming in visual studio code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevim.vim
I prefer https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetliakov.vscode-neovim since emulators are generally not 1:1 compatible in the most unexpected places.
