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Re:Vim Modes Transition Diagram by dreamer7 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:51AM (#27273183)
I started using vim quite recently and I have a pure opposite view point as yours. With vim, I find myself editing code effortlessly, without conscious effort. This never happened when I was doing this with other text editors using keyboard shortcuts or the mouse.
Re:Vim Modes Transition Diagram by throwaway67114 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:09AM (#27274997)
How did you get started?
Re:Vim Modes Transition Diagram by dreamer7 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:02AM (#27275793)
I was using vim mostly while working on projects with a single board computer. But at that time I only knew the basics of searching, jumping to a line and entering insert mode to edit some text.

Recently I installed vim plugin for vscode and spent a little time digging deeper into vim and practiced until it got into muscle memory.

One little shortcut that I've noticed even some experienced users aren't aware of is :x to save and exit. It is equivalent to :wq