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Chris Lozac'h

To answer the question asked: I'm not interested in learning anything that's documented exclusively in 1000 page PDFs. (Encountered 2 such systems at my last job and found it highly demoralizing. 😬)

On the VIM tangent…

For anyone who's in the "I'll learn VIM when I've got tons of free time and feel somehow inspired to slog through the VIM tutorial," check out vim-adventures.com! (No affiliation.)

I started the tutorial twice without finishing before stumbling on this surprisingly-entertaining game. It had 12 levels, rather than 13, at the time, and I finished them all over the course of a few days and came out with skills I thought would be forever beyond my reach!

The first 3 levels — which are free with no account creation necessary — give you a good feel for it, along with the basics needed to begin to "feel" what VIM motions can do. As a matter of principle, I generally hate to endorse products in open forums, but this one's worth making an exception as it's rare to find anything that makes learning a dry technical skill feel not just fun, but effortless.