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How To Learn Vim Using This Plugin Inside VScode

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More than 3 years ago, I published an article about Vim that turned out to be one of the most popular articles that I have published so far, where I argued that Vim isn’t that scary and a list of resources that readers can use to learn it.

Now, I stumbled upon a VSCode plugin called “Learn Vim” that is intended to help you learn Vim without having to leave one of the currently most popular coding editors.

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How to disable Slack WYSIWYG editor

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Slack recently released a new feature which can be helpful, as it gives you the opportunity to edit texts with a lot more features. It came with the popular WYSIWYG editor, which gives you a lot of features that you can use to enrich the messages that you sent on Slack. This may be something interesting and useful, but it can be something that not everyone needs it.

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Vim isn’t that scary – Five free resources you can use to learn it

There is no doubt that everything unknown may be frightening. The unknown is usually followed by a type of resistance. Vim is not an exception. Still, despite the fact that a StackOverflow question asking about ways of exiting from it has been seen more than one million times, it is one of the most used editors by developers around the world.

Many people who do not use Vim are accustomed with other editors and think that they do not need to switch to it. They do not want to leave their comfort zone, because they think that Vim takes too much time and effort to be learned and that does not make that much of a difference after all.

By taking the time to read this article, you have shown that you already possess some type of interest about Vim. Before we see some resources that make it easier for you to learn Vim, let’s see the reasons why should we use this 1980s text editor. Continue reading

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