Would this author happen to have a blog post of how they teach it? I'm curious.
It has been quite effortless to delete or replace words or lines but every time I've tried getting more adventurous with it - say, surround every line of text with double quotes etc, I end up finding the commands unintuitive or hard to remember.
There's also an issue with my older muscle memory of `CMD+Z` which works on a different stack than `u` and `CTRL+R` and I end up messing up my code.
It’s worth noting that u and ctrl-r don’t operate on an undo stack but on an undo tree.
So if you have a series of edits and undo them all then do something else you can still get back to where you were before.
Use g+ and g- to walk the tree and the Gundo plugin is gives you a nice visual diff interface.
So having a separate shortcut and “stack” is actually a great feature of Vim IMHO.
Do you have any other similar recs that would help for learning?
set path+=**Setting up ctags will give vim some IntelliSense-like functionality that people tend to miss from their IDEs. More info here: https://andrewra.dev/2011/06/08/vim-and-ctags/
Be wary of this, it can end up being quite slow. Here is an excellent write up detailing the usage of the path setting.
https://gist.github.com/romainl/7e2b425a1706cd85f04a0bd8b389...
His book Practical Vim[1] is particularly good because it teaches you the “vim way” without plugins.
Not that there’s anything wrong with plugins, I use a load of them, but there’s loads you can do without them.
1. https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edit...