All these tutorials are like taking beginner French. If you want to learn French live in France. If you want to learn Vim you have to live in it. Use it for your development full time. Then over time you start to see it's power.
For me on Windows, GVim was the only sane option. Mostly because the Windows console can't fully handle syntax highlighting / italics. However it's also a good transition world. You've got all the power of Vim but quite a few of the commands you'd expect still work. I've practically never need them but it's handy to reduce the confusion / frustration
For me on Windows, GVim was the only sane option. Mostly because the Windows console can't fully handle syntax highlighting / italics. However it's also a good transition world. You've got all the power of Vim but quite a few of the commands you'd expect still work. I've practically never need them but it's handy to reduce the confusion / frustration