Beginning Vim (and using Vim in other text editors)

Stephan Bakkelund Valois
The Startup
Published in
12 min readJul 2, 2020

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Today, I want to write a bit about Vim, using Vim keybindings. and why you should use switch to Vim keybindings if you’re not already using them.

Me, as well as many others started hearing about this arcane text editor when we first started learning programming. What is it with this 30 years old editor, that makes it so intriguing?

First of all, about all Linux servers have Vim installed. This means if you were to SSH into a server, you would probably use Vim to open and edit files containing text, be it regular text…

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