Finally learning vim after a few years of absolute refusal.

echo export EDITOR="vim" >> ~/.bashrc

Good good!
Now get rid of X and you are good

Unpopular opinion but gvim is better if you are not lacking X. :)

@dontPanic do you mean the x in my terminal to close the window or x as in xterm (I'm using the pantheon-terminal)

@Axis xserver as in the thing your windowmanager is based on.

@plusgut why should I get rid of xserver to use vim?

@Axis you shouldn't. @dontPanic was making a joke.

@plusgut haha fair enough I just wasn't sure

@plusgut @Axis @nik123 yeah... Well... I wanted to be funny for once XD

@nik123 that's my boy!

@dontPanic don't worry, I smiled a little when I read it ;)

@makmm from what I understand the learning is an ongoing process. But I definitely can navigate, edit, search with regex (I already knew regex) and use some of the key commands. At first I was using vim-adventures but now I'm using vimtutor :)

OH and now I can finally exit vim correctly.

Is it mostly agreed upon that neovim >= vim? It seems to be the same but with a few performance/productivity enhancements

@makmm "did you learn it" - there are few people on this planet who could honestly answer this question with 'yes'.

@makmm Me? I can use it - more or less - productively. I would say a bit less than classic IDEs, which means I'm really not very proficient in using vim. :)

For me there's been a point where I could use it well enough to not have a lot of motivation to continue learning (you're working very slow while googling for every damn key combination).

I currently use vim especially for server maintenance, but I have used it for software development before.

I know the more basic ways to move around in a file, how to copy, cut and paste and understand the concepts of buffers, tabs and windows.

I've also installed a fuzzy finder plugin which has been a big productivity improvement for me.

@Axis Yes, though most important addition at the moment is :terminal. Also comes with saner defaults which I may say are good enough. But most important changes are on the refactored codebase which is irrelevant for an end user but great if you wanna hack your editor.

@konfou what does :terminal do?

@theCalcaholic Opens the embedded terminal emulator. Since I guess you will ask why this is good (or at least I initially did), running inside nvim allows you to use all nvim features and commands. Also makes a multiplexer redundant for stuff often done when editing such as repls and running tests.

@konfou Oh, that sounds cool!