Learning Vim in 3 Steps : linux@programming.dev

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm new to the Linux programming scene, I'm a chemist but have been learning as a hobby and did a little BASIC and Pascal as a child, and from my experience and research the best three steps are:

sudo apt install nano
nano [filename]
ctrl+x

I'm being somewhat facetious, but haven't enough knowledge to know if it's better/powerful than nano, still a real green noob.

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

Try micro

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[–] lukalix98@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I get it, I was the nano guy before trying vim, now I can't go without vim, and beleive me I've yet to unlock full vim potential.

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[–] threeforks@mastodon.social 3 points 8 months ago

@lukalix98 Vim is great, and with your commitment, it gets even better.I am by no means one of those huge vim experts, buy I’ve been using it seriously now for about 10 years.What really blew my mind was when I applied Lazyvim. lazyvim.org I exclusively use Neovim with LazyVim. 3 minute setup. [edited to change ‘get’ to ‘gets’]#vim #neovim #lazyvim

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Nano is for chemists maybe. Editing couple of lines and saving.

But vim is one of the most powerful text editors ever created. It's so powerful and good that it gets ridiculous. Also, from an ergonomic standpoint, your body will thank you for using vim/neovim

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

1) :
2) q
3) !

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