At my job I wrote a lengthy document on how to use vim, like the core concepts of the hot keys (each key has a meaning behind it, text objects and such). I feel like everyone was happy about it but no one used it at all. It’s painful as hell to see them fumble on vi and vim.
Its so rough watching non vimmers use vim
a pro vim user watching a vim noob using arrow keys.
/
:wqa!
and then reopening the editor instead of just using:w
x
repeatedlyi
and then the right arrow key until they’re at the end of a lineSTOP! You’re scaring the children!
The first time I ever touched Double Ds was in vim.
It’s all fun and games until someone does
ddO
instead of usingS
;(I’ve heard some people even use
:wq
over:x
….I’ve been using :wq for years…
What? No “Esc. Shift+ZZ” ?
Those last two made me physically recoil wtf
Are you kidding? I remove nano on purpose so I can sit there and watch them struggle!
Brilliant! I’m putting this in a script and running it on every single server I have SSH access to.
You monster!
At my job I wrote a lengthy document on how to use vim, like the core concepts of the hot keys (each key has a meaning behind it, text objects and such). I feel like everyone was happy about it but no one used it at all. It’s painful as hell to see them fumble on vi and vim.
You can share it at !vim@sopuli.xyz I’m sure people (me included) would love to use it