On 2014-05-19, Ethan Hereth wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Xen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's not like I'm really all that new to VIM but I can't say > > I've ever used it in a decent way. > > > > Much of what I know is just muscle memory from a past life.
[...] > > Anyway, if you have any tips or suggestions, I'd love to hear them. > Xen, > > Just a couple, perhaps obvious, questions/tips: > > Have you run through vimtutor? I remember the first time I walked all > the way through that after having used Vim a lot for a few years and I > still learned some things that I didn't know. I would certainly second the suggestion to review vimtutor. Then I would look at Bram's video, "7 Habits For Effective Text Editing", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6K4iIMlouI. It was pretty easy to learn everything there was to know about vi. That's no longer true with Vim--there are just so many commands now. Bram offers some good advice for improving your effectiveness at performing the tasks _you_ do most often. Reading this list regularly really helps, too. I'm always learning something new from it. As Ethan wrote, there are a lot of good tutorials and blog articles on the Web, too. It helps to get recommendations from experienced users, though, since there are also a lot of articles out there from well-meaning authors who really don't understand Vim very well. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
