I use vim just to confuse my collaborators. I love it.

I was so burned out at my last job. Starting to get apathetic. Then I saw one of your videos, watched the dev hour with Theo, and have watched a lot of your skits since then. Now I'm reinvigorated and excited about programming again. Thanks for the content!

You are the man who brought me to Vim and changed my perspective on programming. Thank you for your amazing content!

You put it so well. I always think people are missing the point about the efficiency and shortcuts in vim. It's not about the productivity. It's about relying as much as much on muscle memory instead of user attention in order to preserve the flow of thought. When you are going through the GUI editors, it constantly disrupts your flow of thought. But in vim everything is muscle memory.

The fact that your coworkers are the one introduced you to VIM is amazing. It proves you have really great work environments. 👍

I had serious tendinitis, I was even considering switching careers because of it, and then I met Vim. I learned it thanks to your Vim As Your Editor series, and I literally can't go back to "normal" editing anymore.

I know vim because my school teacher use it. And he told that we should learn vim. Then I found your vim series video. Thank you for bringing me to the vim world!!

My brother introduced me to vim name years ago, but i thought that was only for config files. It was only a little more than a year ago that I saw you coding in vim and saw all the possibilities. I now use vim as my only editor and can't be more happy about it

I started vim when I got a job that required us to develop in a managed VM with no mapped drive. All editing had to be done IN the VM. The lag from typing to seeing the code change was driving me crazy. Then I saw someone SSH into their VM and use VIM and was blown away with how fast they were coding. I never turned back

I'm gonna argue that vim also leveled up my "thinking" time when it came to programming. So much of that "thinking" time I find for me is really just reading other code. Fzf+ripgrep+go-to-definintion with an LSP let me read through code soooo much faster than I ever could before.

Thanks a lot for the video, I think it explains it very nicely :) you are also the reason i learned & started using vim (your tutorial series was a big help)

I've been introduced to emacs while learning lisp. There's something glorious about getting in the zone using all the keyboard shortcuts to switch buffers, run code, edit, etc. Reminds me of playing RTS games. I'm gradually leaning towards doing c and python in it too. I also have a plan to bind my entire numpad to open parenthesis so I can just smash my hand on the general area.

I remember seeing your first video on your vim workflow and I was blown away by it. I used vim in a basic capacity as I started my career as a Linux systems administrator, but I never thought the dev workflow you have was even possible. Thank you Prime for nudging me towards neovim. I'm still learning my dev flow with it now, and boy do I feel _blazingly fast_ 😁

I've heard about vim before, but you're the person that actually made me learn it. Thank you:)

I started using vim after a little intro course I had at uni peeked my interest on it and you really got me to love it and learn to reeally love coding, thanks man!

I took a similar path to vim: Lighttable -> Atom w/ vim plugin -> neovim with someone's config off GH that made it friendly for a newbie -> straight vim (when v8 dropped). I haven't felt the need to check out nvim again since I switched to plain vim, but it's cool to see all the work they're doing. Tom Ryder's excellent blog posts on Unix as an IDE (including Vim) were a great resource along the way. And I also wound up moving from FED to DevOps, so being able to use busybox's vi without a learning curve was really nice.

You introduced me to vim and I am loving it so much It’s just flowing from thought into code thank you 🙏

Best energy of any tech tuber, would love to see some more coding videos! Hope this can replace the Netflix gig one day keep it up

Been binging your videos for a week or so now... I really did think I was subscribed. That outro got me.

Honestly, I started using VSCode Vim Plugin around a month ago after being a long time prime-lurker. Now I realized to better foster my Vim/Developer learning, I need to switch to a Linux Distro as a primary driver. I feel it is the next logical step for any serious Developer, because Windows (and some degree Mac ) just don't give that extra 'umph' when it comes to developing. Anyway, thanks Prime. You are one of the youtubers I idolize along with Luke Smith, Mental Outlaw, and Dave's Garage, and I really owe it to you for making programming (especially advanced programming) seem fun and extremely welcoming 🙂.

I’m focusing all my time and effort on actually learning how to code, but man you’ve got me so hyped to jump into VIM from watching your streams and how efficient you are. You’re right, it literally is a superpower haha. Can’t wait to join the cool kids club

One old fashion reason to learn vi/vim was that back in the day if your machine crashed and/or was in single user mode the root partition generally wasn't big enough for emacs or other editors and you didn't have many choices unless you knew how to use ed or sed to edit files (also handy to know when using tee to connect to a headless server to get root access via serial)

Thank you for you content. I really enjoy it. I'd like to point out another reason I haven't seen commented yet (though admittedly I haven't read them all). I'm mostly a sysadmin, so even though most of my day is around code, I am on a shell 99% of my time, and when you're ssh'ing or even accesing a virtual console of a system that didn't boot and you need to repair that grub or go to dracut, you end up having to modify files with whatever you have available there. So being comfortable with one tool that you can use everywhere, and which is natively available all the time, is a really really helpful skill. All my colleagues struggle with using vim when they have to inevitably resort to it, and I just chose to embrace it.

I like the way you explained about vim , infact I get curious to learn the vim thank for pushing me into that and i subscribed your channel ❤

2 years in and I am rocking out with neovim, real programmer's dvorak, and a dactyl. You have defined a massive amount of my productivity flow that I simply could not live without.

I learned Vim because my old pc sucked so much especially when using electron-based editors with large codebases. Still sticked with Vim even with better hardware to code with. There's just something with Vim that makes me feel at home compared with other IDE"s and editors. Thanks for your videos about Vim, I was able to quickly scaffold my personal configs that really suits my workflow.

I started with Sublime, then moved to VSCode and I keep trying to convince myself to like VSCode. Soo next step is learn VIM lol, never thought I’d say it. I’m still relatively new to programming, glad I found your channel, super down to earth dude

After forcing myself to use nvim for the past week and struggling a lot I finally appreciate how easy it is to fly around without leaving the keyboard. Memorizing all the keystrokes takes a while but sure is worth it in the end. I'm still having difficulties with treesitter syntax highlighting with god damned lit-html, can't get my head wrapped around how to set it up properly.

Subscribed a while back and you got me to finally try it. So far your 6 part tutorial series has been really helping out a lot!

You're 100% the reason why I use VIM motions today and I've gotten really good with them. However, as you said, I know how powerful using the VIM editor can be, yet I'm quite intimidated by the experience. I know you have a playlist called "Vim As Your Editor" (which is damn good btw!) but for the most part (1-4) you only cover the VIM motions. Could you help us by creating another playlist for working with the editor VIM? Kinda like a structured progression to get us gradually acquainted with VIM...

Big thank you to you, Prime! Your content inspired me to use vim. Happy to report I'm now a one year vim user! Also a filthy VOD watcher btw.

Thank you for this great video. You just now inspired me to write a tribute called "The Zen of Vim" on Medium!

In the first programming lecture, the teacher opened vim in a command-line window on Linux and started typing. Shortly after, I was blown away by how efficiently it was. I immediately threw Windows into the rubbish, installed Linux and vim and am using them since then happily (and of course, exiting vim the first time is always a bit troublesome).

Why I use Vim in 2023? Because I can't quit it

Yoo hoo! Another Vim Video! Keep up uploading content like this!!!!!!

I used Vim back in the old days and loved it but recently, I had been struggling along with visual studio code, using the Vim compatibility mode. Now and in no small part because of the videos from you and TJ, I have switched back to 😊Neovim and feel like I’ve gained superpowers :-) Coding Lua just makes me happy.

I love vim. I love system tools. I still use vscode w/ vim emulation because I like minimal config when working on projects because I don't have to do much to get fancy features

You're missing two reasons imo: 1. The motions are portable, have been and probably will be around for ever, you can use a lot of them in like all IDEs 2. It's fun - this is my main reason. I like it for the same reason I like programming. So I now enjoy the actual process of writing

As always cheers for your vids on Vim. my lead dev uses intellij and one of the other devs just made the switch from vscode to vim. Lead dev puts on the whiteboard another way to get fired (among other funny shit) start using vim which of course is BLAZINGLY FAST

God, that zoom-in in the end, it made me subscribe!

My story is also same. One day I found one guy in our team who was using emacs for everything. I immediately started using emacs and that opened a new world of terminal editors to me. Used emacs for 2 months and finally started using vim. I have to use IDEs time to time but always go back to vim.

Great video, as always! I'm proficient in Vim and decided at some point to try out Doom Emacs and loved the ecosystem... However, I find that running Emacs on Windows comes with its own operating system-specific challenges, which limit the functionality of Emacs. I found out about Emacs with natively compiled Elisp, which resulted in a drastic performance improvement (but slower package installs), but still haven't been able to work out some Windows-specific kinks. I believe you run Linux and would not face those obscure problems. I would be interested in knowing why you switched away from Emacs (with Evil mode) to Vim. Thanks.

Your vim videos have helped me out tremendously! My coworkers think I'm a wizard. Maybe it's the coconut oil, maybe it's maybelline, but vim just makes everything better!

Thanks to you, one year ago I started to use my terminal as my code environment. I couldn't use anything else than vim now. I feel complete.

Awesome video Prime! I started using vim about 2 years ago and it really changed my coding life, but my vim config is LOADED with plugins from everywhere and i'm now thinking of configuring a vanilla neovim with no plugins. Can you please do a guide similar or recommend something?

Used VsCode vim for over five years before making the switch to just using Vim. Navigation between files was always the hardest part of my switch and your videos helped with that. The argument that Vim is somehow old and so worse is strange. The biggest thing to happen to Text editors recently IMO is Language Servers, and now neovim supports it natively.

You're hands down my favorite programmer

my love for vim recommeded me your channel and I love it :)

Two thoughts: 1. The whole "spending more time thinking vs coding" misses part of the picture. We also spend quite a bit of time sending messages, responding to emails, searching through internal pages, googling, etc - there's great benefit to knowing your way around a keyboard, and getting good with vim helps this quite a bit. Especially with some of the less frequently used symbols :) 2. IDEs have a lot of helpful builtin tools. Debugger, quick language support, etc. The modal editing paradigm is where most of the speed gains are, and I sometimes wonder if it'd just be better to use IDEs if they had better vim support.

Why do you use vim? Or, why don't you use vim? What do you use?

I seriously use Vim at the moment I saw your channel and I was surprised by the speed with which it moved, today I already built my first plugin, and I have unpublished more written in Lua.

Your videos make me want to become better. Thank you soo much for your content!!!

Code completion, powerful intellisense and having the IDE shout at me sometimes are some of the things that I cannot leave IntelliJ behind and go to VIM. Specially smart code analysis. I have a feel that whenever I switch to VIM I lose all of this and it’s like running with 1 leg only. Thoughts?

I use vim keybindings in visual studio 2019, would love to use vim for .net development but doesnt seem possible for building desktop applications. For other tasks though your neovim videos have been amazing.

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

I can say I had the privilege to witness your first forays into Lua on stream. I'm a long-time Lua fan and I'm glad to see your position...changed? I remember your rants while building Vim-Deathmatch 😜

I've used Vim for two years, and recently switched to VSCode. It's just more comfortable and just as fast for actual development. If you really need to, you can even perform most of the Vim party tricks. Vim is an excellent software project, but so far I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that using it leads to greater productivity or code quality.

have the same pc for 10 years (those in built cpu ones) , could barely run vscode without crashing so switched to vim 3 years ago and i couldnt have been happier

Heard about you from word of mouth. Literally subscribed on first video.

One of my friends jokingly dared me to switch to it but within like a week I was hooked on the vim way of doing things. I also think once you've got a language fairly understood, everyone should code without any autocompletion for a bit to really ingrain that knowledge and that was a handy side effect of the transition

This guy is truly the Dr.Disrespect of programming... Hilarious! I think I speak for us all when I say your work is awesome!

Cause it is blazing fast, of course

That ending really got me to subscribe! 😂

You are awesome! Christ@machine, TJ, Luke Smith and you makes me loves this editor.

Whenever I use vim, I can feel a huge buff.

I started to use vim to feel smart I keep using it (or emulating it) because I feel dumb without modal editing, now

I've been seriously considering switching to Vim. I haven't been programming for very long, but I find myself obsessing over efficiency and ergonomics all the time. The only issue I'm worried about is the fact that I use an alternate keyboard layout - Colemak-DH for typing, and so I may run into conflictions with certain shortcuts, but I'm sure it's easy enough to go through and change these. I'll definitely be mapping the hjkl to neio unless using the pinky finger becomes fatiguing. If that's the case I'll probably opt for jkil (neui in my case, basically the typical arrow key layout) if the pinky finger becomes fatiguing to use. I've also just found your channel and it's honestly such good content! Subbed!

Customization and consistency across languages is great, I love vim

I really like how this channel is not mainstream yet. It's just a guy coding and checking out BLAZINGLY FAST libraries. Love you man, Whenever I am feeling down i goto some of your BLAZINGLY FAST comparison videos (they are extremely educative too).

I've been using only Vim for my entire undergrad education since first semester, because we had a course called "Computer Tools" in which we learned the basics of Unix and a lot of cool little stuff, including Vim. I think I was the only one in my generation that actually sticked to Vim. Years later, some of my peers still look at me baffled when I code like they can't believe I actually use Vim.... Until some months ago when I went to the dark side and started using (and very quickly adopted) VSCode. I'm not going to lie, if there is ONE thing I didn't like about Vim, it is its config file, syntax, and managing extensions. On VSCode, I only had to install the vim extension to have Vim-like keybindings. I still use Vim here and there but I mostly use VSCode. I fear returning to Vim "fully" might be too hard at this point. Send help, friends.

Prime your videos got me into VIM gotta say thank you

appreciate this! No need to repeat what you've said, except to say I've been on the same journey. Huge shout-out to "vim adventures" for making the transition to vim fun. Today, coding is as much fun as it was when I was a kid, which is all I've ever been looking for.

The greatest misconception in CS in general is that everybody wants "the best", be it "the best editor" or "the best tecnology". I've always hated when people say that X is crap because Y is better without any valid argument. My ex boss used to mock at me because at that time I was using a minimal arch install with i3 since the company gave me a really crappy laptop, and I had to do everything inside the terminal and with Vim, even though that wasn't really an issue, whereas he was using his MacBook Pro with Sublime Text. I mean, almost every tool has its own niche and you need to understand its philosophy to make the best out of it, if you use Vim expecting to click here and there you are disgracefully wrong. Every tool has to be learned, and I don't get why tools like Vim just because they are based on the terminal have this "stigma" of being uselessly complicated.

a lot of people kind of suspect that vim is more efficient, but make up excuses as to why they don't have to learn it. i used ide's for ten years before i picked up vim. now i regret that i didn't do it sooner. all programs based on the "normal" text editing scheme are actually really, really bad, and you have to kind of step out to realize it.

Recently got into modal editing, but I went with Helix and got *hooked* . It's Kakoune-inspired so not exactly a Vim-analogue, but I just love it so much.

These are great points lol, as my teams tech lead I felt the need to share this (any my religion of vim) with all of them

Will there be a tutorial for how you configure your nvim at some point?

Recently switched from VS Code to vim. I thought C intellisense made my workflow faster. However, learning vim proved me wrong. I've never been faster in programming. Also, vim isn't that hard to learn. It took me around 2-3 days to build muscle memory for the common and basic commands. The more advanced commands can come later and isn't that difficult either.

Actually laughed out loud when you called me out for not subcribing. Probably watched 10 of your videos in the past week and it felt like you were calling me out specifically. Earned another sub :)

I've been using Vim keybindings for almost a year now, and I'm still really on the fence about it, but I'm gradually climbing over. For me, the movement and navigation is so natural, so I've started using the Vim extension for vscode (which I do like). The part that I find difficult about going straight Vim or Neovim is that sometimes I do like scrolling, using the mouse, etc. With Vim, you're jumping around a lot, which is fast, but I find that sometimes I'm moving faster than my brain can keep up with, so I lose the context I need, which is often retained with scrolling as I can visually track where I am moving. Often I'm spending more time thinking about what keys to hit to most efficiently get somewhere, when I could have just reached to the mouse and clicked, or else I'm slamming the same key to navigate into a word because I didn't correctly calculate how many letters to "f" or "t" to. Also, the search or search/replace functionality often takes much longer since it's all regex (but maybe I can change this?). Either way, I tried setting up a full neovim editor with nerdtree, terminals, windows, buffers, all that stuff, and I just really couldn't make sense of it. To me, that is the biggest hurdle in switching -- window/environment/workspace management. I'll get there eventually, I'm sure, because I love Vim, but dang it's hard to get over this one, where using something like VSCode with vim keybindings handles all the windows for me, and if I ever get stuck, I can always reach for the mouse instead of my phone to look up how tf to switch to my last opened buffer or close the window I'm in. Edit: I've been using Neovim at my job for the last month or so, and it hasn't been easy, but I think I'm getting to a point where I'm now comfortable and able to work well. However, there are times the LSP doesn't have a definition or something, so I'll be like "oh does VSCode do this properly"? But it turns out it doesn't even have it. Still makes me second guess and check in VSCode. Might just be Ruby being Ruby.

If there's something I can't do in vim, i use vscode then figure out to do it in vim in my free time. Eventually you run out of things you don't know how to do lol

for me Vim/Emacs’s usefulness is an extension of the usefulness of knowing how to touch type. I can type without looking at the keyboard, and I can navigate/edit text without hunting through menus and toolbars. It’s less about being quick for me (although thats nice too). Mouse actions never really become complete muscle memory in the same way keyboard commands do. Like everyone spams Ctrl+S to save without even thinking about it in most editors, but you can’t mouse over through menus in the same way without taking up some cognitive ability away from thinking about the actual engineering task at hand. Vim/Emacs enables me to place all editing on the keyboard to spend less time thinking about how my hands will do what I’m thinking of and more about what I’m actually doing.

You are the mentor I never new I needed.

newbie developer at amazon, my typical day starts with one of your videos. You are inspiration!!!! I wish to be lighting fast like you one day. 😢

First

You know how Buddha was enlightened? He used tmux with vim.

I use Vim since I watched your "Vim as your Editors" videos. Thank you so much!!

Started using vim after learning it from you, Thank you!

I use vim only to appease you, mr. coconut man

I have never been a fan of the "oh, most of the time I spend thinking" argument. Maybe it is just me but I can't quite recall a time when I have just done thinking in isolation when I am sitting in front of a computer. This thinking phase is usually comprised of trying multiple approaches / refining the taken approach / refactoring / etc and being able to do this fast can be quite significant in terms of the resistance that you face internally when doing the said activities. I have observed since I have worked on improving my typing speed, speed while working on codebases, also usage of copilot. I try more stuff out, refactor more often, and usually approach the problem from more angles, write more detailed commit messages, and jot down more ideas. And this is something other folks also resonate with who take this path (improving typing speed, learning vim keybindings, etc)

I came to vim the exact same way. Five years ago, I asked a co-worker to show me how he did something I was only moderately interested in. He was excited to show me the thing that I asked about and I was definitely interested, but that quickly took a back seat to his blazing-fast navigation of code and configuration files. I never actually got into the thing that I asked him about, but watching him navigate text files at a speed I could not _fathom_ doing with a mouse and a few motion keystrokes and other keyboard shortcuts. After a little while I even said out loud, how are you moving like this, what is this sorcery? And he pivoted to showing me all about vim and that was it for me. I was committed to giving it an honest try and it didn’t take long before I realized I was way faster with vim that I could possibly be with Sublime or Atom (both of which I had been using for a while).

You are the main reason i tried out vim and I can't thank you enough. Now I'm sitting here after half a year using Vim with my Moonlander and I will never go back. Thank you!

Thats really inspiring, I fkin relate so much, hope I can master this teleportation magic as well

Had no idea that it was Guy and Yunong that got you on the VIM path. Those guys are the best! 💜 Now I'm wondering if I should switch over to Neovim because I do miss being able to hop around/remove/replace words and between/beginning/end of lines.

I've seen some of the "why you should use vim" thumbnails and videos. So far I've been sceptical but this is the first time I've seen it recommend by a KZfaqr whose opinion I value. Gonna try it this WE

Well! When I started to learn programming i heard about vim and thought that it is just an old text editor and can be used on servers in terminal. I tried to open vim in terminal and I was stuck in it. I was unable to exit so I turned off PC. After 2 or 3 years later I was looking for best and customizeable text editor. I tried so many that I does not even remember names of these editors. Many people on many sites were saying were saying that vscode and other text editors and ide's are much better then vim. People use vim nowdays just to impress others. So I backed off But then I saw DT on Distro Tube channel on KZfaq who was teaching something and i was following him. That was first time i saw awesomness of vim and tilling window manager. I was seriously speachless. His speed of moving around in text file, switching between different windows, closing and opening. Mine mind was just blown after watching this. At that time I realised I need to learn vim and have to use tilling window manger. I still remember I was puasing video again and again because of his speed. I was unable to catchup to him while watching video. Now i'm learning vim. And soon will be very good at it

Practicing Golang with nvim, I kind more like (or love) coding, Thanks for all vim videos. Without your videos I probably will never touch vim editor.

Something I feel you should address in a video, oh mighty one, is project folder to file navigation, and project runtime execution. I believe it is equally important to understand these concepts to become a legend like you. When I edit a file I am sprinting but once I am out I tripped, fall on my face and slide to the finish line. Need tips right outside vim.

Just get into Vim recently. I didn't do much on coding but pretty enjoy using it.

RIP Bram. I've been using vim since 1995. Tried other editors a few times, I just didn't like them. People don't seem to like it, they think I'm an idiot for not using VS code