So I've been thinking about this and your other responses in this thread, and I think I've figured out where our viewpoints differ, fundamentally. TL DR: the fancy stuff is the best marketing, but it's best to start slow. But if I had tried to learn all of the things that I know are cool about org-mode, emacs, and spacemacs all at once, I wouldn't have gotten any work done over the past few weeks, and honestly I probably would have given up. spacemacs file, have only learned a bit of org, and am sure that I am nowhere near peak comfort/productivity/flow. Now, after using org and emacs for three weeks, I'm at the point where several of the amazing features that I had heard about are in my bag of tricks, and it feels awesome! But I've barely tweaked my. I threw in spacemacs to reduce the learning curve, but I still was initially much less productive with org-mode and emacs than with markdown and vim for my TODO lists. I'm a long-time vim user with a super-optimized vimrc, so I know what productivity feels like. I've recently taken this approach to emacs and org-mode. Once you've shown someone vim and whet their appetite, it's probably best to show them about 2 or 3 features and let them fill in the blanks while being at least minimally productive. Those GUI elements will tempt you to use the mouse, when that's almost never an appropriate thing to do.Įdit: learning to use x and d early on is probably also a good idea, if like me you're the kind of person who makes mistakes. Search and replace with regular expressionsĪt the beginning of every session. Mode confusion is a feature, not a bug.įor the rest, there are certain topics that reward study and are unlikely to present themselves to you accidentally, but there's no hurry unless you're feeling the pain of not knowing them. Pay attention to the bizarre behavior that results and you'll learn useful tricks. Most of the good stuff in vim, you'll learn accidentally, because you're in normal mode when you think you're in insert mode, or because you have caps lock on in normal mode and you don't realize it. Are you still reaching for the mouse? If not, you're using vim just fine. Don't let people tell you you're using too many keystrokes. Alternatively, don't try to hurry enlightenment.

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