I’ve been switching from Vim to Helix recently. I did the built-in tutor, and whenever I need to configure something, I look it up in the docs. The problem is, I only find what I already know to look for. Without reading the documentation more broadly, I don’t really know what I can configure in the first place.

So I’m curious, do you sit down and read documentation to understand a tool, or do you just search it when you hit a specific problem?

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago

Good question! When I’m learning a new tech usually try to search for best practices in configuration, then read the docs to see why the settings are being recommended.

Other than that I just try to remember where to find what I need

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