Honestly just memorize the fundamental ones and google everything else you need on the fly. You’ll naturally memorize the ones you use often.
I’ve used VIM for nearly 5 years and the only keybinds I have memorized are ‘a’ (append right here) ‘A’ (append to end of line) ‘i’ (insert right here) and I use the arrows to navigate instead of the letters. The only incantation I have memorized is %s/text to replace/text to replace with/g (find and replace through entire file. Remove the /g to find and replace only the next instance).
Once you have those, you can basically do anything that you’re capable of in a normal editor. If you need to do something beyond that, search “how to x in vim” and click the first stack overflow link that comes up, hasn’t failed me yet
It’s very hard to break up a flow to have to google. :D I found a cheatsheet that I will keep open on another monitor, that should help. I reckon going through the Vim Tutor every day should help me get the basics down quickly.
Thanks for the tips, my hope to switch away from IDEs is higher than ever!
Sub renewal is coming up in July. I’m seriously wondering whether I can get these vim bindings down before then.
Honestly just memorize the fundamental ones and google everything else you need on the fly. You’ll naturally memorize the ones you use often.
I’ve used VIM for nearly 5 years and the only keybinds I have memorized are ‘a’ (append right here) ‘A’ (append to end of line) ‘i’ (insert right here) and I use the arrows to navigate instead of the letters. The only incantation I have memorized is %s/text to replace/text to replace with/g (find and replace through entire file. Remove the /g to find and replace only the next instance).
Once you have those, you can basically do anything that you’re capable of in a normal editor. If you need to do something beyond that, search “how to x in vim” and click the first stack overflow link that comes up, hasn’t failed me yet
It’s very hard to break up a flow to have to google. :D I found a cheatsheet that I will keep open on another monitor, that should help. I reckon going through the Vim Tutor every day should help me get the basics down quickly.
Thanks for the tips, my hope to switch away from IDEs is higher than ever!
You can keep using the current version without renewing your license, so there is no rush
Wow great tip, thanks!!!