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Discussion on: Should I learn Vim (or its keybindings)?

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Andreas Schnapp • Edited

I have started learning how to use vim the right way by reading "Practical Vim" by Drew Neil. I really enjoyed the reading and it changes the way of thinking while editing text completly.

While I always love coding it's even more fun by editing the vim way (ok most tasks i'm using a IDE with vim mode).

But there was also some tasks which feels like hard work. Where you have to edit many places and do some boring but error prone changes multiple times.

Today I love having the same situation. I make the change one time in a very clear and reproducable vim movements/commands sequence. And then I can easily do the "hard work" by using the first sequence multiple times as a macro.

It take some time to master vim but for me it was quite fun and i'm love to find new ways of beeing more productive every day.