On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 at 16:24 Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Really, the basic stuff is enough to be very productive in vim. In fact > just knowing how to save and quit is half the battle! A little cheat > sheet for vim by your keyboard would be plenty I think. If all you knew > was how to change modes, insert, append, change word, yank, delete, and > paste, that is 99% of what you'd use every day. You can use normal > arrow keys, home, end, and page up and page down for cursor movement in > vim, so even if you can't remember ^,$, gg, or GG, you'll do fine. > Eventually you can begin to add in other things, like modifiers to c > (change). > I second this. Make sure you've got all the nice Vim stuff enabled (set nocompatible, set mouse=a etc.). And if you're not comfortable to begin with using normal-mode commands, just stick with the mouse, arrow keys & insert mode. Once you get comfortable with that, perhaps set a target to learn one or two normal-mode commands a week and go from there. I found as soon as I'd learnt to use the direction commands & save I was already more productive in vim than Notepad++ for example, and I just got faster from there. > There probably are a lot of nice plugins for ViM, but I use none of > them. I just don't find them that useful. I don't seem to need any IDE > help with Python. > On the other hand I use bags of plugins. I particularly recommend Jedi if your computer is fast enough (it's a bit of a resource hog), and syntastic as a great way to integrate style checkers & linters into vim. -- -- Matt Wheeler http://funkyh.at -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
