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Comment by lhnz

This is why I only use the most basic features of vim. There are simply too many commands to learn and many of these tutorial and cheatsheets present you with too much information. I don't think the time investment makes sense, and I don't understand why there has to be so much noise: how many of those commands save a significant amount of time; how often are they used?

The questions I would like to ask advanced vim users, are:

(1) Imagine that you had your memory of vim wiped, and you lost the ability to remember more than 10 commands. If you decided to learn vim again which 10 commands would you keep in memory?

(2) How many commands does somebody need to know before they can used vim productively? Is it less or greater than 10?

parent lhnz 15 years ago

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