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I mean, it's kind of expected to forget about them if you took a break for a year after having used it for 6 months?

I do think 6 months should be enough to see some benefit in your workflow (like ci" to delete everything between "" and go into insert mode or Ctrl-O to go back to the last place you jumped from).

But I guess it depends on how you practiced, and if you look at those 6 months I'm sure you'll see that the time spent on actually learning Vim (struggling to learn these efficient editing patterns) was much less than you'd think.

With a tool like Vim I don't think it's enough to just use it, but we need to put conscious effort into it to learn it properly.