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Discussion on: What Alternative Text Editors Does DEV Use? (Not VS Code 🐱‍👓)

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Jared

I think the best way to get started with vim is the hard way

agreed.

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Mohammad Javad Ghasemy

it's not harder than emacs

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

That's probably true, but I like to introduce people to Vim inside of VS Code with the VIM extension. It's a great way to let people get their feet wet without committing a lot of time.

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Jared

I like that idea. It didn't work for me, though. I would fall back to what I knew and avoid using Vim motions. To me, it's like learning any language...immersion is key.

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Dawood Feyard M. Kaundama

That's true Jared, I will also give it a try, the hard way.