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
Sub renewal is coming up in July. I’m seriously wondering whether I can get these vim bindings down before then.
You can keep using the current version without renewing your license, so there is no rush
Wow great tip, thanks!!!
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
If you want to start using Vim the way i was intended to be used. You should really learn touch typing. Also, text objects are a pretty big deal IMHO.