As a programmer I spend a lot of hours at the keyboard and I've been doing it for the last 12 years, more or less. If there's something I've never gotten used to during all this time, it's these annoying and almost unconscious constant micro-interruptions I experience while coding, due to some of the most common code editing tasks. Things like a simple copy & paste from a different line (or even the same line), or moving 1 or 2 lines up or down from the current position require too much typing or involve the use of the arrow keys ...and it gets worse when I want to move further - I end up using the mouse. Now imagine this same scenario but on a laptop.
我一直在考虑学习VIM，但掌握它所需的时间总是让我想后退一步。
我想听听那些学会了它的人的意见，如果它最终成为你生活中不可或缺的东西之一。
在工作中，我使用VS2008, c#和r#，它们一起使编辑代码比以前更快更容易，但即使如此，我认为我可以享受根本不需要使用鼠标。
甚至连方向键都没有。
要快速学习vi(m)，首先必须理解整个设计。
Vim有一组很棒的光标移动命令，检查一些(X是一个字符，#是一个数字):
J k进入箭头
0美元
w w b b
ctrolD crtolU
ctrolE ctrolY
H m l
fX fX tX tX，;
％
gg G
n n
mX 'X”
还有很多，要一一列举是很无聊的。其中许多工具都支持在命令之前添加计数，比如用4j向上移动4行。
现在，回到设计中，键入一个命令，如d，用于删除，然后移动光标，该命令应用于从光标位置到移动结束的文本段。例如，H移动到屏幕顶部，dH删除到屏幕顶部，cH更改(替换)到屏幕顶部。
这个设计很强大。它还可以减少或组织你需要学习的内容。
毫无疑问，第一步是学习一些光标移动命令。比如说，一开始是8到10个。那么你就差不多完成了。
I too put off learning vi or vim for many years. Matter of fact, I use to make fun of the "vi guys" who always seemed to be doing finger aerobics. Then, as I moved away from Windows and over to Linux as my primary OS, I had to become more familiar with vim. It was a learning curve and it still is. After 9 years of using vim on a daily basis I still find myself learning new and faster ways of doing things. What I use to think of as "finger aerobics" actually turned out to be an extremely efficient way of being productive. I can now do a whole lot more code development in a whole lot less time and effort than I ever did prior to vim. And as I'm sure you know vim runs on about every platform out there so you always have it when you need it. Also, if you like GUI's they have GUI versions for most platforms. Personally, just like the mouse, I don't want to see a menu bar, scroll bars, etc. cluttering up my editing window(s).
如果你决定尝试一下vim，我强烈推荐O'Reilly的《vi Editor Pocket Reference》一书。它很便宜，如果你只是学习vi (vim)，它是很棒的。完整的vim书籍也很好，但口袋参考给你所有的基础知识，快速高效。
I'd say vim is definitely worth learning. I picked it up last summer, and it is now my editor of choice for just about everything (java is a stretch, but doable when I don't need extensive analysis support). As everyone has already affirmed, it is a wonderfully efficient tool.
For what it's worth, I only learned a fairly small subset of vim's features (which took a day or two) from a graphical tutorial, and a few odds and ends from here (long read), and the search and replace functionality, and I was hooked. I've learned things since then, but at my leisure. I'd say the learning curve flattens out at this point, but then, I was using it pretty heavily and was surrounded by others who were, too.
