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I have to be honest, seeing some content on YouTube and noticing some folks presumably putting things on the screen in the same speed as they were thinking is what got me into it.

I've had a TREMENDOUSLY DIFFICULT time getting fully up and running with it in terms of workflow, but the text navigation alone has absolutely made me code not necessarily faster, but in a MUCH more enjoyable way. After a while it became difficult to imagine navigating a piece of code without some of VIM's core ideas, even if in my case it is down to mostly the feature-set related to easily navigating a file.

Alas, for me then the VScode-Vim extension is doing the trick, but since you mentioned the learning wall, curious if you know any resources or can suggest a path to move past it nowadays.

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Definitely agree about the enjoyable part. I don’t necessarily think vim has made me more efficient than normal keyboard+mouse, but I definitely find text editing a lot more enjoyable. It makes a really big difference in my state of mind during the day.

For me it was a combination of:

- Reading through vimtutor

- Disabling my arrow key bindings and unplugging my mouse for a week (as part of a combined vim/i3/vimiuim learning experience/experiment)

- Playing Vim Adventures, a puzzle game based on Vim's controls

The three days of godawful productivity has paid off a thousandfold- especially when I later became temporarily disabled (broken bones in both arms) and couldn't use a mouse for a while.

Is the vim-vscode extension good? I love vim on the terminal but I tried thr extension once and felt like I was trying to shovel one system into another system. Maybe I was just doing it wrong...?

Note that I haven’t used it in two years, but this is the same problem I had with the extension and experimenting with things like evil mode in emacs. There was also a problem where VSCode would update and the vim extension would break or get laggy until the extension devs caught up. It may be better now, but both experiences drove home the fact the I really just felt more comfortable in vim.

I can't speak to the more advanced stuff and feature set, but if all you are looking for is some of the keyboard-based navigation, registers, marks, etc., it seems to do these quite well (in my case, at least)

Could you share some of the videos? I’m getting better at Vim but maybe some videos showing “whats possible” would be great to focus some of my learning.

>>VScode-Vim extension is doing the trick

I tried using vim on vscode, but it doesn't play well with Python utils like Black and Flake.

If you are using these modern tools you are buying into the whole experience.

Playing editor golf has really gotten out of fashion these days.

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