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Discussion on: How to get better at vim?

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Amree Zaid

Use vim as your main editor even though it's going to slow you down a lot. Learn while using it. Following tutorials is ok, but it doesn't help if you just keep on learning. You might not even need everything and it's ok to not know a lot of things.

Obvious advice: make sure to not give up. If it's too much, take a break. I stopped using vim couple of times, but in the end, I managed to use it as my main editor.

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Uvindu Harshana

Thanks a lot man for the advice. A good point "learn while using it".

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This is in fact the best advice. I did it and after two days of work I feel pretty much confortable to keep using it.

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Uvindu Harshana

Thanks for sharing man

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George C. G. Barbosa

the best advice for sho. use it as main editor. also ignore distractions at first. it takes time to learn a few things and it is ok to ignore plugins and other things at the beginning. you are also be considerably slower for a while, but after you master it your productivity boost is going to pay off in my opinion