[PLUG] I wish, I knew this when I started with Vim

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My colleague in USA was a "brief" fanatic software developer.. I never listened to his recommendation though, otherwise I would have been watching Trump impeachment (after first watching / following closely) trials...

What a lucky day to live one more day before arriving in December...

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On 25 Nov 2019, 10:53 AM, at 10:53 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com> wrote:
>After many years of usage, I stopped using CLI quite some time back.
>But
>still use vi kind of editors a few times.  This reminds me of the best
>editor I ever used -- BRIEF . Just checked that Wikipedia page and
>found
>that few things in vim come from brief !! Just check the features in it
>that are even today very useful and innovative!! And those were
>available
>in the eighties on a dos environment!!
>
>Check out the wiki page here:
>
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)
>
>Regards
>Sudhanwa
>
>On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 9:02 AM Tejas Sanap <sanap.tejas at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hey, folks!
>>
>> As the world rides the "VS Code" wave and it's extensive list of
>> extensions that are easy to set up and even easier to configure, some
>of
>> us, stick to the Old Way of Vim. However, as effective as vi/vim may
>be, it
>> presents a considerable learning curve, especially, to the novice
>command
>> line user, it just seems too much to handle all at once and thus,
>they
>> either move to "nano" or abandon command line text editors,
>altogether.
>>
>> But, the vim community, offers great documentation and there are tons
>of
>> blogs written by vim-users, all over the internet. Captain Pike, from
>the
>> USS Enterprise, once said, "the best way to swim in a cold stream, is
>to
>> jump right in", and it is also true in the case of vim.
>>
>> Using vim for all your editing tasks, is the fastest way to learn and
>the
>> easiest way to appreciate vim.
>>
>> The best source of vim-related things is the "r/vim"[3] sub-reddit.
>>
>> The best place to clarify your vim doubts, is the #vim IRC channel.
>>
>> The best collection of vim-hacks for the most common issues realated
>to
>> vim is, the vim-wikia[4].
>>
>> The most accurate, detailed and dependable source of information for
>any
>> vim feature is the "in-built" documentation[5].
>>
>> The links [1] and [2] are good beginner resources.
>>
>> [1]: https://kadekillary.work/post/learn-vim/
>>
>> [2]: http://vimcasts.org/
>>
>> [3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/
>>
>> [4]: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/
>>
>> [5]: https://www.vim.org/docs.php
>>
>> --
>> Tejas Sanap.
>> (whereistejas on Freenode)
>> https://whereistejas.me
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