Pro tip for new VIM users: it's "Q".
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025
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Even though I regularly use vim for editing files, so many shortcuts and commands are still unknown. How would one approach this issue without reading the man page? Asking for a friendβ¦
vimtutor is the starting point for learning vim, but it's fairly surface-level. To actually learn vim, you should read through the user manual by typing :help usr_01 and hitting enter in vim. It's also accessible online here: https://vimhelp.org/usr_01.txt.html#usr_01.txt.
It's a fairly quick read, about 40ish pages that are reasonably short and is intended to be read straight through like a book. It provides a good overview of all of vim's features.
Note: this is distinct from the reference manual, which is much, much larger and isn't intended to be read straight through.
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If you use Vim you'll never use any other software
I would respond.. but I canβt figure out how to exit Vim
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That silly program can't trick me! I used Vim last year and I'm totally able to use other programs!
...I just have to use Vim also at all times!
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The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE's for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)
By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.
So I never had to learn Vim, and now it's in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well
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You surely mean Emacs, no?
He tried to, but couldn't enter edit mode to type it out
Text editors should be simple and approachable above all. Nano is undeniably the best by this definition.
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Vim -> Emacs
Please! no more editor wars, just use ed! And if you need the fancy modern features, you can always use notepad.
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all, is the standard text editor
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But idk what that is and I don't want to google it π€‘
listen here, you little shit
:wq!