[dunham]

Yeah, I've known and used "vi" for a couple of decades, saw someone use visual mode in a video a few months ago, and it blew my mind.

I still don't know how to do project navigation in vi, as I mainly use it for editing config files. I used emacs back in the day, but vscode is what I'm currently most comfortable with for moving between files in a large, deeply nested project.

[patricius]

Use fzf for file navigation and perhaps vim-vinegar. When you open Vim, use :cd to change to your project directory and you’re ready. Use :term to start stuff, e.g., a local web server or whatever. Use fzf to navigate between open buffers.

[mstudio]

You might find the ":NERDTree" plugin useful for project/directory navigation:

https://catonmat.net/vim-plugins-nerdtree-vim and https://github.com/preservim/nerdtree