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It's a Show HN. OP's just sharing something they've been working on that they find interesting. No need to dump on it over and over.

>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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> A good critical comment teaches us something.

> learning Vim has nothing to do with muscle memory and doing it outside of Vim is pointles

He fairly expressed his opinion of the OP's project. I don't agree with this opinion, but let's not be such snowflakes. The commentator did not insult the creator.

I don't think it's constructive feedback in that it doesn't give anything for OP to do except just give up.

johncoltrane gave the same feedback last time, so I don't see how this is supposed to be helpful to OP. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31832423

OP is pretending falsely to help people "master Vim" via repetition. I'm using the same strategy to steer people toward better ways to learn Vim, without the lies. OP doesn't need help, it's the potential victims of that scam that do.

I think "lies" is a bit of an exaggeration.

Again, I'm not gonna defend the opinion because I disagree with it, but johncoltrane can give his feedback as many times he wants to, and I think his feedback can suggest to change approach to the problem, not only to give up. He didn't said OP should just give up, so don't put words into someone else's mouth.

Plus I think it's great that he's suggesting to all readers free alternative for learning.

I kind of get where they're coming from, but I hope all my messages in this thread have made it clear: If you want to learn vim, please try all the available free resources before considering vimified, or any other paid option.

I used vimtutor and openvim and they were great starters!

It was only when I tried to find something to fix my specific problem that I stated in the top comment, did I build this.

It’s a repost. don’t post it over and over :)

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