I love vim, but it wasn't always like this. When I was a Linux newbie one of the things that irritated me most is that tutorials aimed at beginners told readers to use vim, without explaining how to maneuver it. People, if you write tutorials aimed at beginners please use nano, even if it's not your preferred text editor.

I love these memes that turn into threads full of vim tips. You really can do anything within vim. You can even exit vim!: !killall vim

It's like learning an instrument really. Just need to practice and eventually muscle memory will carry you

You can keep your vim. I am happy with my nano.

bonus point: if you like inception, do :term, press i and start another (n)vim session :)

I will not make vim my sweet as it is optimized for us keyboard. Most of the shortcuts are awful in my native (Finnish) layout. As much of a heretic I am, there is a place for mouse and windowing display managers.

What I do miss from the Redmont dystopia is Notepad++. Can do anything, can be explained over the phone.

If you don't want to use the :! bang command, you could also temporarily exit vim with Ctrl + z and reopen it with fg (like foreground).

Dangol modern Linux users, haven't even heard of Ed. Every text editor is bloat, ed is life!

:!VSCode.exe

This is the duality of Linux. Linux is an easy OS that's extremely customizable and everyone should use it. But also you may have to choke out your PC to exit the text editor.

Did yall know that Notepad has tabs now? So does explorer!

I'm one of the people who use micro lol. I do want to give Vim a real shot.

I'm personally a kakoune guy now. I used vim for over a decade, but kakoune just makes much more sense to me. And I thought vim made a lot of sense, too.

I was forced to learn the vim basics. Mainly because I really started with dd-wrt, which I used on my Linksys WRT54GL.

The image was too small to package anything fancy in it, like nano or something, but vi (or vim, I forget) was included. So when I needed to check something over ssh at the command prompt, vim was my only choice.

My skills in vim have not expanded beyond the basics. Getting into edit mode, exciting edit mode, saving, quitting.... Mostly.

I don't spend a lot of time editing files in the CLI, so I haven't needed any more than I already know. Now, when faced with a Linux cli, and needing to check/edit the contents of a file, my go to, is vim. It's pretty much on every system, and it works perfectly fine for what I need to do 99.99% of the time. I like vim, it's been there for me through thick and thin, and helped me out of some serious jams. I won't hate on nano (or any other cli file editor), they all have their pros and cons.

Use what you like.

And I don't even want to start vim.

Step-by-step guide to getting started with Vim

1. Uninstall Vim

2. Install Neovim

3. Install Emacs

4. Install Doom Emacs

5. Enable vterm inside Doom Emacs

6. Disable Evil mode

7. Run Neovim inside Emacs using vterm

8. ???

9. Profit