You start out and you only have `h,j,k,l` available to you (despite what the help says). So just end up holding the keys and maybe that's fine but then that first level is WAY too big.

Like I got to the second area and it starts talking about word motions and then you try `w,b,e` and it then tells you those keys aren't available. That's not even the first character you talk to that is mentioning movement keys while those keys remain unavailable to you!

I rage quit after unlocking `w,b,e` and moving back to that chest at the beginning only to realize I had forgotten there was a space between the word and punctuation meaning I'd need to unlock something like `B`, `0`, `^`, or even the ability to use numbers which a character had already mentioned to me...

[1/10] do not recommend. I believe most people will be able to read half of `vimtutor` before you will unlock the `b` key in this game as well as have a much better understanding of how vim actually works.

I highly suggest vimtutor to people because what a lot of people miss while learning vim is that there isn't actually much to remember. There's sets of motion keys and sets of command keys. The beauty of vim is that the commands are putting these together. For example, say you learn `b,w,e` and then you learn `d`. You now automatically know `db, dw, de, dd`. You didn't learn 4 new things, you learned 1 new thing. Similarly learning `B,W,E` isn't learning 3 new things, you learn one new thing: capitalized motion keys work on WORDS instead of words (aka: big movements)

Is there such a thing? I feel like someone has probably made something this - something that progressively works through soem of the more complex features of vim.

I’ve found soem absolute gems mostly through online blogs and reading through vim docs

If anyone has any repos that’d recommended I’d be happy to try!

:P

Make some key bindings. Bind leader to space, and make a leader mapping for writing to the file, and another mapping to quit. Avoid chords.

hardtime.nvim[1] (or vim-hardtime[2] if you're old-school) do exactly this but within your editing session. There's an associated blog post[3] explaining the rationale behind some of the workflow choices and you can of course bring your own.

[1]: https://github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.nvim

[2]: https://github.com/takac/vim-hardtime

[3]: https://m4xshen.dev/posts/vim-command-workflow

https://github.com/cboppert/motd

You might have to futz with it a bit, and I think I've added some other stuff in there since then (love the toggle-light-mode script which toggles several things either to Dark or Light mode at once so I can switch environments easily, however have never gotten it to fully automate, so I have to manually type goDark or goLight depending. Humbug!)

Anyways, it's great cause it gives you one tip or command at a time, and so you can sort of slowly grow without really having to dedicate much time to it.

That vi was standardized was one of the many failures of POSIX as an idea. The very idea that we should freeze a text editor for all time is silliness in the extreme.

It took me half a minute to realize that you probably meant "vimtutor is to VIM master what Babbel is to duolingo".

/s

Like, I'd bet "Pay $10 if you like it" / ReaperWare would earn this person literally an order of magnitude more money.

I found a pricing dialog after clicking “buy a license”, it said that six months of full access to the game costs $35.

mark a spot, then yank or delete everything to that line. Way easier to do it accurately rather than 13yy or however many lines you're yanking.

  >> hoping it’ an alternative to vimtutor but for experienced/intermediate users.

                                                        :P :Print                                                                                      
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                          Just as ":print".  Was apparently added to Vi for                                                                              
                          people that keep the shift key pressed too long...                                                                             
                          This command is not supported in Vim9 script.                                                                                  
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[1]: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Direction

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

What does this mean? All I found on the Google was a company that produces sim racing gear.

Wait, I'm the first to say that? That should be a thing.

...or y'x to keep something kindof handy that I can drop in at the right place (sometimes with a macro...)

    qadi('xpq => @a => @@...

If I keep "x" clean/protected then I can delete or edit the rest of the time all willy-nilly and not worry about clobbering what I'm trying to paste into the right spots.