Learn Vim Progressively

Re:Learn Vim Progressively by beaumartinez on Monday August 29, 2011 @07:08AM (#2936740)

Nice tutorial—better than many.

However, these kind of tutorials always fail to mention the number one way to learn Vim:

    vimtutor

and

    :h usr_02.txt

Those two (and successive pages in the user manual) will teach you practically everything about Vim—and they're included right in Vim.

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Re:Learn Vim Progressively by rfrey on Monday August 29, 2011 @11:44PM (#2940026)

From the article:

"Fortunately vim comes with some very good tools and an excellent documentation. Run vimtutor until you are familiar with most basic commands. Also, you should read carefully this page: :help usr_02.txt."

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Re:Learn Vim Progressively by beaumartinez on Friday September 09, 2011 @04:26PM (#2979699)

Since I wrote that comment he changed his article to include that (unattributed, of course): https://github.com/yogsototh/Scratch/commit/6555b7d94cee124a...

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Re:Learn Vim Progressively by hasenj on Monday August 29, 2011 @07:31AM (#2936782)

vimtutor is actually slow and boring

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Re:Learn Vim Progressively by joelthelion on Monday August 29, 2011 @09:35AM (#2937098)

It takes less than 30 minutes, and teaches you a lot of useful things, with practice, that actually makes you memorize the things. If spending 30 minutes learning vim is "slow and boring" to you, then I sincerely doubt vim is for you.

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Re:Learn Vim Progressively by hasenj on Monday August 29, 2011 @09:41AM (#2937120)

I use vim everyday as my main editor.

This guide is much more interesting: http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

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Re:Learn Vim Progressively by gbog on Monday August 29, 2011 @09:30AM (#2937075)

Indeed, the article is certainly too short to be slow or boring. It reads in 2 minutes, and you learn near to nothing about Vim, not even search and replace or <c-y>.

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