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Life & fun · June 15, 2017

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Piece by Piece introduction to Vim

Piece by Piece introduction to Vim launched on June 15, 2017 with 12 votes, #842 of 3,107 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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Piece by Piece Introduction to Vim is an educational resource that teaches users how to use Vim, a text editor designed for people who spend significant time editing text. The guide aims to demonstrate Vim's capabilities for various tasks including coding, email, note-taking, and text transformation. It is intended for users seeking to improve their editing efficiency and workflow through mastery of a powerful editor.

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Quick, look at the calendar, because today, if you are someone who spends more than 6 hours a day in front of a text editor, your life is going to change. Let me repeat that, you won't look at editing text the same way; if you manage to hang around till the end, your brain will be rewired to demand nothing less than a powerful editor like Vim. Emacs is an magnificient text editor, make no mistake. If you can think of doing any transformation of text–writing code, sending emails, reading news, connecting to databases, creating websites 1 , taking notes–Emacs does a brilliant job. Emacs just isn't Vim 2 . And this essay is about Vim. If you are a power user of any other text…from anuragpeshne.github.io

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