I'm having a go at using Vim full time after years of dabbling.
I attribute the weirdness of Vim to it being like learning a completely different actual language similar to learning French if you're an English speaker.
With an editor you do almost everything through muscle memory, and so like speaking a language it's subconscious.
Unless you've got a French English dictionary or Google Translate you've got very little hope.
The problem is most GUI editor users assume that it's just an editor like they're used too.
The only way to learn it, is like a language by speaking it all the time and changing the pathways in your brain.
I want to get round to writing a translators guide for Sublime Text users on the basis that's probably the most similar GUI based editor to Vim. Then most people can translate their own editor to what ST does and from there figure out Vim.
I attribute the weirdness of Vim to it being like learning a completely different actual language similar to learning French if you're an English speaker.
With an editor you do almost everything through muscle memory, and so like speaking a language it's subconscious.
Unless you've got a French English dictionary or Google Translate you've got very little hope.
The problem is most GUI editor users assume that it's just an editor like they're used too.
The only way to learn it, is like a language by speaking it all the time and changing the pathways in your brain.
I want to get round to writing a translators guide for Sublime Text users on the basis that's probably the most similar GUI based editor to Vim. Then most people can translate their own editor to what ST does and from there figure out Vim.