On 2017-08-11 10:16, Grant Taylor wrote: > I'd suggest not modifying how Vim behaves / does thing while > getting started with Vim. > > However that does not extend to unconfigured Vim. I say this > because things like line numbers (:set number), search highlighting > (:set hlsearch), and (syntax highlighting (:syntax on) do not > modify Vim's behavior, but (I think) they do make Vim a bit more > friendly. > > IMHO there's a subtle but distinct difference.
Agreed that those are more presentational tweaks rather than behavioral tweaks (though I tend to only manually enable line-numbers on the rare occasions I want it, and incsearch/hlsearch tend to annoy me when unbidden manually). But I too count myself firmly in the camp of "learn raw vim first, and only then when you need extra tweaks to improve your workflow, reach for a plugin/script." > I have also found some people on Twitter that seem to have some > impressive VimFu. Here are some people I recommend, in > alphabetical order: > > @ed1conf - Vim can do much of what ed does, and ex mode is quite > similar. > > @gumnos - WONDERFUL resource. Tim is happy to explain the > odd things that he does in Vim. And I try to provide similar explanations here too, though without the 140-character constraints of Twitter, I tend to run a bit verbose in my replies here on vim_list (as a quick search for my replies in the list archives will corroborate). Glad to have you pop up here on the mailing-list. -tim -- -- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
