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Kostia Palchyk

"I started learning Vim [...] because apparently I had nothing better to do" — Ha 😅

A great story, thanks Heiker!

My gateway to vim was this amazing and hilarious intro that I would still recommend to everyone!

"Welcome to Vim" by Derek Wyatt, 30min

Me, like everyone else, I started with vim that soon got fzf and other plugins (the community is amazing, btw!) and I worked with this setup for about a year. Simultaneously trying sublime and webstorm vim overlays (later is super heavy). Nowadays I switched to vscode+vim overlay. It doesn't have a lot of native vim features, while the upside is that you get all the vscode features out of the box with a plug-n-play vim-like experience. Yep, I'm cowardly running away from .vimrc, I admit 😔

And thanks for sharing the OniVim — will keep an eye on it!

P.S.: Dear random reader, note that Heiker also mentions tmux — a very handy tool! Do take a look at it if you haven't yet.

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Heiker • Edited

Thank you for taking the time to read it and also for sharing that video.

Yep, I'm cowardly running away from .vimrc, I admit 😔

My current vim config has 700+ lines of code (~786), uses 25 plugins (26 if you count the plugin manager itself), depends on 4 external commands (5 if you would like to count tmux), and it took me like 14 months to get it in the "right state" to be able to use it for work. I cannot judge anyone who wants to keep using their favorite IDE/text editor with a vim emulation plugin. It is safe to say you made the right decision.