Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Learn to Touch Type, Then Learn Vim

If you have to look down to find the keys on the keyboard, the benefits of learning Vim won’t come fast. Learning to touch type is imperative.

Vim traces its ancestry back to the classic Unix editors, vi and ed (see ​On the Etymology of Vim (and Family)​). These predate the mouse and all of the point-and-click interfaces that came with it. In Vim, everything can be done with the keyboard. For the touch typist, that means Vim does everything faster.

Footnotes

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http://vimhelp.appspot.com/usr_01.txt.html#vimtutor

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