Any Vim experts out there? 🖖

There are quite a few videos of people showing you the basics of using Vim. I don't remember which ones I watched, but it's useful to see how others navigate quickly around the file. I was an emacs user for probably more than decade but I got tired of "emacs pinky" so I decided to try Vim. I haven't looked back since.

I still use IDEs like Xcode (required, really for autocomplete), but when editing markdown or just general text I use Vim.

I recommend having a cheatsheet handy when you first start. When you encounter something you want to do but don't know how, look it up and then add it to the cheatsheet. Keep going until it becomes muscle memory.

I think it took me a few weeks before I felt like I could get around a file quickly.

Hey @BraydenTW. I've been using vim for ages, and it's awesome, I can share my setup with you.

BUT. If your goal is to keep developing frontend apps, I cannot escape the notion that vscode seems to be a bit better. Case to the point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnupOrSEikQ&t=3s, Ben Awad showing how to configure vim similar to vscode; but he concludes that vscode is still better for him personally.

Just my cents.

I recommend getting the basics right first. There's a lot of plugins and and .vimrc tweaks that can help you in the long run but before diving into those, get to know what Vim offers out of the box. Otherwise, your workflow quickly gets messy.

"Practical Vim - Edit Text at the Speed of Thought" is a book that helped me a lot getting started with Vim.

Good luck!

Good luck! I know the path you are taking very well, took a me a long time to switch to Vim back in the day, not an easiest thing to do. But eventually if you persist you will not regret learning Vim, honestly you might not ever want to use other editors again.

I don't consider Vim to be an editor, I call it an editor builder. You will build your own perfect editor using Vim, which will take some time. Browse for other peoples vim configurations on github, copy-paste snippets which you find interesting and learn them one by one, expect it might take months till you're proficient enough to use vim as your daily editor. For example here is my neovim config.

One more thing, let me share an article from Yehuda Katz which helped me a great deal initially, there's a lot of information on the internet and people telling you do this or that. It an old article but the message is still true today.

Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong

You mentioned you're familiar with VSCode and have always used it - have you tried using any of the extensions that add Vim keybindings to VSCode?

I applaud your choice and wish you all the best in your 10 year quest of mastering vim.
Since you didn't ask any specific question I will simply say:

1. vimtutor
2. vimgolf.com

shortcutfoo.com - find vim

I've found these interactive VIM tutorials to be helpful:

1. https://vim-adventures.com/
2. http://www.vimgenius.com

I highly recommend checking out The Primegean on YouTube.

Hey, I started with Vim recently, coming from VSCode as a frontend developer like you.

I highly recommend SpaceVim, it's like a plug and play distribution of Vim with common plugins already in it, In my opinion the first thing you need to develop is muscle memory and improve your workflow with it, and avoid going crazy for have a usable basic Vim

Doom-Emacs is also a good option.

Your best friend is vimtutor.

As for NeoVim vs. Vim, NeoVim has some features that make plugins faster. If you use lots of plugins, you may end up reaching for NeoVim, but you're probably fine with Vim to just get started.

You might like VimTricks