Dev adventures, epic bugs, tiny wins, and the occasional meltdown. Zola 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 https://golden-fox.dev/tags/vim/atom.xml 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 Aakriti Agarwal https://golden-fox.dev/til/vim-journey/ <p>So, I watched <a rel="external" href="https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/editors/">MIT’s Lecture 3</a> on Vim today and honestly way better than the other tutorials I watched. Also found out there is this whole <a rel="external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war">“Editor War”</a> thing between Vim people and VS Code people. Apparently Vim wins if you live in the terminal, VS Code wins everywhere else.</p> <p>Today’s achievements:</p> <ul> <li><code>hjkl</code> for moving around (my arrow keys are no longer needed)</li> <li><code>:wq</code> to exit (got it first try, which means I am already better than like 50% of people)</li> <li><code>w</code> and <code>b</code> to jump between words like I know what I’m doing</li> <li><code>dd</code> to delete entire lines (dangerously satisfying)</li> <li>Everything is just keyboard letters somehow? No mouse needed, which is lowkey CRAZYY!</li> </ul> <p>So yeahh, Vim is hard. Everyone says it gets good eventually (hopefully). I am choosing to believe them for now but the plan is to just stay consistent so I don’t quit by Week 2.</p> <p><strong>Current status:</strong> Can navigate, exit and can’t do much else<br /> <strong>Future status:</strong> Editing files at the speed of light</p> <p>I Also started <a rel="external" href="https://vim-adventures.com/">Vim Adventures</a> to actually practice these commands it is basically a game where you can’t progress unless you use Vim keybindings. Way more fun than just reading docs.</p>