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Re:A Vim Guide for Advanced Users by g0xA52A2A on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:01AM (#33812893)
The best guide is built in to Vim but sadly often overlooked.

https://vimhelp.org/usr_01.txt.html#usr_01.txt

Re:A Vim Guide for Advanced Users by asicsp on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:25AM (#33813015)
Table of contents for this user manual: https://vimhelp.org/usr_toc.txt.html (`:h usr_toc.txt`)

Here's the reference manual: https://vimhelp.org/#reference_toc (`:h reference_toc`)

There's also a cheatsheet: https://vimhelp.org/quickref.txt.html (`:h quickref`)

Re:A Vim Guide for Advanced Users by marklgr on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:59AM (#33814755)
Reading the docs and searching into it on a regular basis is the single best advice I could give to Vim users wanting to improve. The odd cheatsheet, the post with a few tricks and cool plugins, all those can be well and good, but nothing beats sitting down and reading the docs. I've been use Vim daily for 10+ years, and I still check help files very regularly. Knowing _how_ to search efficiently is also a skill worth acquiring.

Incidentally, the same advice apply to Bash: just read the man page, and search into it each time it is needed. It is just worth it.

Re:A Vim Guide for Advanced Users by thanato0s on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:35AM (#33827883)
I tried to go through it multiple time, but I couldn't:

1. It's way too long, the complete stuff is ten of thousand of lines. 2. It goes into needless details, especially at the beginning (the "finding help" section is intense for example). It turns me off each time. 3. It's too dry, not really enjoyable to read to me.