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Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by lorenzfx on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:05PM (#15401481)
I always recommend 'Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.' to new users starting out in vim [0]. You can never learn about the language of vim too early.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/2131903

Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by sevensor on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:23PM (#15401620)
That's a very informative link -- I can see how that might be helpful context for a new user. It's hard for me to get into that mental frame, since my first text editor was edlin for DOS. I'll stick by my recommendation to type first and study later, however. Experience is a powerful teacher.
Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by exist on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:30PM (#15410896)
Thank you for that link. I appreciate that he chose to intersperse the history of commands (such as grep!) within his explanation.
Re:Interactive Vim tutorial by RunawayGalaxy on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:08PM (#15413955)
That was enlightening. Thanks for sharing!