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Discussion on: Vim isn't for everyone. Here is how to make it yours

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Yuki Cheung

I have my own list of plugins in Vim, but I was so used to graphical interfaces that, every time when I try to cut and move a long snippet to different place, I feel I cannot do that in Vim well. That's very annoying. :(

But Vim is really fast! Still thinking how to use Vim instead of VSCode.

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Chris Chou

I think the transition for me is graphical -> shortcut keys -> vim commands. I already knew how to do quite a bit with shortcut keys (like ctrl + c for cut and ctrl + v for paste) before I started vim. Some of my first wins with vim are by replacing the shortcut keys I normally use with vim commands (like x for cut and p for paste). This got me feeling productive pretty quickly.