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So I have used ST3 for years now, and I realise that I'm slowly moving toward Vim. I started using Vim shortcuts in Chrome, and now I use Vintageous in ST3. Vintageous is good, but it is incomplete. It can't even do the first examples on this article (ctrl+f / ctrl+b) correctly.

Thinking I should just bite the bullet. Would mean I could work on a server using Mosh + Tmux as well, which should be rather nice.

What would the current canonical guide be for getting up and running with Vim, with plugins, auto-complete[1], inline linting, multiple carets etc?

[1] Just the ST3-style of parsing out tokens in the same file



Note sure about a guide but I would start without any plugins at first. Otherwise you never learn what's vim and what's a plugin, and working on remote servers will be a pain. Also for a lot of plugins, there's a better way of doing things in native vim if you learn it properly.

What worked for me to bite the bullet at uni was making myself do an entire programming assignment in vim and not opening in any other editor. If you commit it doesn't take that long to learn. Keep a list of commands handy and learn a few new ones each day.


For 1: ctrl-n

[ed: a little more context and detail: http://usevim.com/2012/07/06/vim101-completion/ ]


Vim has “multiple carets” out of the box with visual block mode.




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