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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by johnmarcus on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:29PM (#19145531)
Um...hate to point out, but he didn’t say it was difficult. He said unless your practiced in it, it won’t be particularly more efficient in it. I’m sur vim tutor teaches all the things, but until they are muscle memories in, you will see no time advantage. A 30 minute tutorial will not muscle memory all the things in, that takes time and practice. Also, while not hard (I use vim constantly as a sys admin) I don’t personally think it compares to what I can get done in Atom and it’s never going to be my editor of choice, no matter how familiar.
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by mettamage on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:31PM (#19145553)
Vimtutor doesn't muscle memory everything in. But it does muscle memory in basic things such as deleting, moving around and going to beginning of lines, enf of lines etc.

That's what it did on my first run. It indeed wasn't perfect, but there were already a couple of tricks that I've learned that I really liked and that's what you get out of it.

I'm not saying you work faster, I'm saying after vimtutor you won't work slower.

I suppose you still work slower if you compare it to your favorite text editor, I'm not very strongly proficient in any text editor, which is why I'm not noticing slow downs.

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