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On 06/03/2012 00:39, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Dotan Cohen schrieb am 06.03.2012 um 00:10 (+0200):
>
>> You will find GVIM frustrating at first, and you will hate it.
>> Once you get over that step, you will fall in love with it. Just
>> stick out those first few weeks.
>
> Ah, come on, it's not that difficult … A reasonable working set of
> movement and editing commands can be acquired and internalized
> fairly quickly. The tutorial does a good job of teaching you that
> base. It does take some practice, though.
>
> The fact is that there's so much more than the base.
>
> So some sort of frustration might ensue, after a while, if you're
> the kind of guy who wants to know *everything* about a bit of
> software. You'll notice that it's like striving to know everything
> about C++.
>
> So when learning Vim, travel slowly and lightly, not burdening
> your brain with too many features at a time.
Good advice. Although I found trying learn to use Vim by only using
the home row from the off was too intimidating so I started with the
arrows keys until I discovered a mnemonic that worked for me: pinkie =
right, ring finger = up (ring up) index finger = down (put down)
forefinger = left.
I then found a desktop wallpaper cheat sheet that had the basic
movements, started reading :help a lot, used lots of scripts (Perl,
bash, etc) I'd got to navigate as if I was going to correct the
spelling mistakes & finally arrived at vimtutor. Circuitous but fruitful.
Needless to say Vim's extensibility is pretty much unsurpassed (never
tried The Other Editor so can't comment) & the community is great as well.
Have fun...
Phil.
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