The 5 Stages of Vim

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[scott_mckendry]

Thanks for reading my article Prime! I hope everyone’s got vim on their resolutions for 2024 ❤

[grandemcfloofin]

"youve gotta suck long enough to see the results"

- prime 2023

[georgehelyar]

The 5 stages of vim are Dismissal, Curiosity, Config, Sunk Cost, Bragging

[Suprlum]

With the amount of articles mentioning that ThePrimeagen inspired them to do (Neo)Vim, they should change their logo to his face. I mean so many people got inspired, its awesome

[MiranJenkins]

The fact that you ALWAYS just partially highlight text grinds my gears

[mattbrewerton]

I had a coworker who used vim motions in Vs code and the way he worked looked so fast but I always thought "why would I want that when Rider/WebStorm has so much more?"

Then I started watching a kind of funny YouTuber using Vim and it lit the FOMO in me.

I'm not using Vim on my work & personal machine - badly - but every time I learn about something new I literally sit back in awe. Thanks Prime.

[Codigger-brrt]

Liked, subscribed and saved to my playlist. Currently trying my best to learn vim keybindings, tmux, shell scripting while juggling through college courses.
I couldn't be more thankful for this video. Hope you upload as frequently as possible. Cheers!

[RenderingUser]

i had no idea about t or f in vim....

ive now made a new breakthrough. thanks prime

[bnorrish]

Vim is like wine. No one tries it for the first time and says “hey this is actually pretty nice.”

[nekoill]

Like a lot of people I found out that at some point dealing with a Linux machine, you WILL inevitably open vi/Vim and have get out if somehow, so I figured out might as well learn to use it and it turned out to be so good that a lot of programs also used either Vim keys/motions or straight up emulated Vim. Haven't regretted spending like what, less than an hour to learn the basics, improved my entire life

[nickcassady]

Great article, I love the way the guy expresses himself

[infastin]

I hate Prime for not highlighting sentences completely.

[metaltyphoon]

Prime: cut this out!

Flip: Embrace the S U C C

[AM-ykyd]

Two stages of VIM-mode in code:
1) "I need :s, % motion, * motion, if I had it it would be so much easier" (install code)
2) "noooo, the myriad of clipboards bit my shiny one yet another time"

(I rarely use hjkl, mostly when joing lines so I can do jJjjJjjJ)

[adriankal]

They forgot number 6: retrospection. After so much time invested into vim, they're just 4:20 seconds faster than average vscode user...

[Oler-yxxj]

Started learning Vim yesterday. That's so fucking genius. Also vimtutor is the best teaching material I've seen in a while, love it

[ChamplooMusashi]

The main thing stopping me from picking up vim personally is just that I have a long list of shit to learn and I am already ok in vscode. It doesn't make sense to spend one of my few long spans of free time to learn a new editor instead of a new language/framework.

[MarcosMoyano]

I'm an emacs user but I can relate to the 5 stages.

[baba_kebaba]

i've been saying this for years:

emacs motion names (ctrl-n ctrl-p ctrl-f ctrl-b)
n - next line
p - previous line
f - forward
b - backward

vim motion names (hjkl)
h - hop backward?
j - jump down??
k - kite up???
l - ludwig II of Bavaria goes forward????

conclusion: emacs wins every time, no more discussion needed.

[dreamhollow]

I feel weird because I took to Vim like a fish to water.
There are a lot of commands I still need to learn, but I love how versatile it is.