On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Tony Mechelynck < antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote: > > IMHO that so-called Easy Vim is a little bit too easy compared with > "real" Vim. Maybe the way kindergarten is easy compared to high > school senior year. So I would advise you to graduate out of it as > soon as you can. Try running vimtutor if you haven't yet, IMHO > that's a pretty good hands-on tutorial to using Vim, a tutorial > which doesn't eschew serious features. > > DISCLAIMER: All the latter paragraph is just my personal opinion; > other people may think differently.
I agree completely and I'm the author of Cream! Vim has its own logic. There's no better way to learn it than simply trying it on its own terms. After a while, you can adapt yourself and go deeper. Then Vim will do just about anything. Evim sits on the fence. It does most things like Vim but basic functions suggesting CUA. Frustrating. To learn Vim, you need to learn basics the "Vim way." Everything else will make a lot of sense afterwards. Tony's recommendation to run vimtutor and using it a week is a great one. I wrote Cream because I wanted an interface that didn't require *any* knowledge of Vim. Ironically, I've learned a whole lot of Vim because Cream is 1.5 Mb of Vimscript. The result is a standard CUA interface devoid of any Vim one. That's better or worse depending on your philosophy of understanding your tools, but at least it isn't caught in the middle like Evim. -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ] Cream for Vim http://cream.SourceForge.net SteveHallArchitecture http://SteveHallArchitecture.com -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
