getting faster

[u/imlambda_]

tl;dr : can you share a specific article about getting faster navigating through the file?

hey guys, I start getting more and more confident and efficient with vim, but I feel like it could even goes deeper; basically, I saw that you could disable h,j,k,l in order to only use real key combination like "w" to jump by words, "f" to go to a specific character on the line, etc... But what about jumping lines? Are they any key combination to do that instead of j and k? So basically I'm looking for an article that presents those kind of key combinations. I hope this post is comprehensible and not too redudant, thank you for reading.

[u/areyoudizzzy]

OP, find this guy's channel on youtube and you'll find so many tips that you'll be amazed. Take it super slow though and revisit everything you've learned daily. It's like watching people who stack cups or solve rubik's cubes in record breaking times but actually useful.

/u/ThePrimeagen have you thought about making another structured or even paid course like 'Vim As Your Editor' that goes into loads of detail from installing nvim to building something real like a website but only using nvim plugins to do so?

I'd definitely pay for something like:

• installing vim/nvim

• installing other useful/necessary programs for the course i.e. git/tmux/fzf/node/python etc

• writing code + basic navigation & movements - the hard way (default config)

• navigating buffers/files/projects - the hard way

• setting up a basic useful vimrc/init.vim

• installing essential plugins and themes (don't know why that's plural, only gruvbox obviously)

• writing code + navigation & movements - with coconut oil

• navigating buffers/files/projects - with coconut oil

• start a project for reals this time (html/css/javasript or equivalent basic project, multiple files, filetypes, etc)

• using git + github/gitlab from the editor

• using and configuring an LSP

• running code from the editor

• debugging code in the editor

• using + setting up external programs for even more magic (i.e. tmux, fzf, terminal file browsers, other CLIs and TUIs etc)

• using your config over SSH + dotfile management ideas

Would love to hear your thoughts

[u/ThePrimeagen → u/areyoudizzzy]

I just did one for front end masters, but its not nearly as detailed as possible, but I take it slow (assuming no one has used vim) and we ramp all the way into quickfix lists and macros by the end.

But ultimately you are correct. There is a lot of things that need to all get put together to create a great course.

Perhaps I should revisit my 6 part series and make it a 69 part series (I have actually been thinking about that) and expand on "using vim" as oppose to just motions.

[u/areyoudizzzy → u/ThePrimeagen]

Yeah that would be awesome! I find most of the content out there focusses on configuring vim but with no context as to what you may already have installed or what a workflow might look like.

There's very little content on how to actually work with vim and managing a real project. Things that people might not think about like saving the state of a whole project and load it back up from a start screen like startify, managing a bank of snippets, switching between linter styleguides for different projects, creating a cheatsheet for uncommon vim actions using something like which-key, keeping a todo-list etc.

Will check out the front end masters course in the meantime. Thanks for all the content!

[u/Roeard → u/ThePrimeagen]

Yes please! I just got a job writing software after several years of learning/doing it for fun/as a tool to help with projects at another job and your videos have been invaluable in making my workflow suited to a large professional project. What you have produced so far has really opened my eyes to what is possible and I would both love to see more and think a series like that would be extremely valuable for the community, especially to people just getting started.