Ask HN: How to become good at Emacs/Vim?

• vim-sensible

  27 5,045 0.0 Vim Script

  sensible.vim: Defaults everyone can agree on

I made the switch to vim a few years ago. You'll want to start with learning the keybindings. Every major IDE and editor out there has a "vim mode" and an "emacs mode" so pick one you like and enable it. Whenever you need to move more quickly just switch back to your usual keybindings and get it done. Once you have the keybindings memorized, try to use them everywhere. There are browser plugins like vimium that let you navigate with vim keybindings for example.

It gets a bit weirder from there. If you pick vim for example theres a whole lot of customization rabbit holes you can go down. My advice is to find some sensible defaults and layer in stuff as you need it from there. vim-sensible[0] is a good start.

Good luck!

[0] - https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible

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• awesome-vim

  3 1,901 5.0

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• dotvim

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  dotvim ~/.vimrc text editor configuration dotfiles. https://westurner.org/dotfiles/usage#vim (by westurner)

• lsp-mode

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• dotvim

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