<story><title>Vim for Humans</title><url>https://vimebook.com/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gravypod</author><text>I wish I could use vim or emacs. I don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;m stupid or something but all of the key bindings, everything you have to remember, it just doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense to me.&lt;p&gt;I wish there was something like nano + plugins. If I had that I could implement most of what I need (other then auto-completion for a crap load of languages).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>Learning Vim is probably a bit like learning to bicycle&amp;#x2F;swim. It requires a lot of conscious effort at first but eventually becomes a second nature. Also, I doubt many vim users would use &amp;quot;nano + plugins&amp;quot; if vim suddenly disappeared. The fact that vim has many plugins and runs in the terminal is nice but isn&amp;#x27;t the main reason people use it IMO.&lt;p&gt;I second the suggestion of using vimtutor to get started (uninstalling other editors helps too!).</text></comment>
<story><title>Vim for Humans</title><url>https://vimebook.com/en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gravypod</author><text>I wish I could use vim or emacs. I don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;m stupid or something but all of the key bindings, everything you have to remember, it just doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense to me.&lt;p&gt;I wish there was something like nano + plugins. If I had that I could implement most of what I need (other then auto-completion for a crap load of languages).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ifoundthetao</author><text>Vim is very easy, I think it&amp;#x27;s just simple to get overwhelmed with it.&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of tools which gamify Vim.  I personally haven&amp;#x27;t used them.  But some say they&amp;#x27;re pretty good.&lt;p&gt;For me, what worked was just jumping in and going whole hog.  I tried disabling the arrow keys in Normal Mode, so I would have to use hjkl for navigation.  But my keyboard puts the arrow keys in easy reach (Kinesis Advantage), so it turned out not to be much of a need.&lt;p&gt;What you may like is turning on relative line numbers.  That way you can visually see what line you&amp;#x27;re at, and how many lines away your target is that want to jump to.  Then you can practice going 5k to go up five lines, or d2j, to from where you are to two lines down.&lt;p&gt;This article was actually eye-opening for me: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yanpritzker.com&amp;#x2F;learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-nouns-and-modifiers-d7bfed1f6b2d#.n1xc3qjkg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yanpritzker.com&amp;#x2F;learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-nouns-and-m...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;ll help you too.&lt;p&gt;:wq</text></comment>