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Re:From TextMate to Vim by oliverkofoed on Monday August 03, 2009 @05:05PM (#740101)
It's worth it.

I did it last year, and it took almost two weeks before i felt like i was even somewhat productive again. However, now, i feel exactly the same way when trying to use an editor without a VIM mode. What? I have to use the arrow keys to move the cursor? But, i'll have to move my hands! sigh

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Re:From TextMate to Vim by bdotdub on Monday August 03, 2009 @06:31PM (#740216)
Amen. Once you get the hang of it, you won't know how you lived without it :)

In fact, it'll start taking over in how you interact with your whole coputer. I find that I type "<ESC>:wq" in chat windows, comment boxes, etc..

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Re:From TextMate to Vim by 321abc on Monday August 03, 2009 @06:43PM (#740238)
Tip: Instead of :wq you can just type ZZ
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Re:From TextMate to Vim by mechanical_fish on Monday August 03, 2009 @08:38PM (#740403)
I learned ZZ first. That turned out to be a mistake, because thinking of it as :wq crams more knowledge into one mnemonic. Because you can take it apart: you can just do :w, or you can just do :q, or you can do useful variations like :q!

And you can probably do all kinds of other powerful stuff that I don't understand, because I'm an emacs user who only uses vim on occasion. ;)

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Re:From TextMate to Vim by 321abc on Monday August 03, 2009 @10:34PM (#740530)
Yes, when learning it it is useful to know that :wq can be decomposed in to :w and :q and combined in to :wq! and :w! and :q!

But once you know that I think it's simpler to just type ZZ

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