So, I watched MIT’s Lecture 3 on Vim today and honestly way better than the other tutorials I watched. Also found out there is this whole “Editor War” thing between Vim people and VS Code people. Apparently Vim wins if you live in the terminal, VS Code wins everywhere else.

Today’s achievements:

  • hjkl for moving around (my arrow keys are no longer needed)
  • :wq to exit (got it first try, which means I am already better than like 50% of people)
  • w and b to jump between words like I know what I’m doing
  • dd to delete entire lines (dangerously satisfying)
  • Everything is just keyboard letters somehow? No mouse needed, which is lowkey CRAZYY!

So yeahh, Vim is hard. Everyone says it gets good eventually (hopefully). I am choosing to believe them for now but the plan is to just stay consistent so I don’t quit by Week 2.

Current status: Can navigate, exit and can’t do much else
Future status: Editing files at the speed of light

I Also started Vim Adventures to actually practice these commands it is basically a game where you can’t progress unless you use Vim keybindings. Way more fun than just reading docs.