I recently started a new job and vi is the editor of choice. The structure of the project is quite complex and being able to quickly navigate and edit related files is really important.
Watching the lead developer code using vi was eye opening to say the least.
In December of 2013 I played around with vi, vim, and gvim. I probably spent a week or two messing around trying to make it look pretty and run on Windows.
I eventually gave up because I was wasting a lot of time and not getting any real work done. I abandoned vi and ended up with Jetbrains editors PyCharm and PhpStorm.
I feel that it is key to my programming career to get up to speed with vim so my next series of blog posts will be about Revisiting Vim.
My plan is to do all the blog editing in Vim and hopefully be able to use it as my primary editor.
For starters I pretty much know:
i = insert
hjkl = movement
:q = quit
:w = write
esc = exit insert
I aware of more commands but the point is I am starting at pretty much the beginning.
Lets see how this goes.
--StevenKW
