[johncoltrane]

> I just can’t go through learning/configuring everything from scratch in my daily business.

Well, you don't have to. You already have your IDE and Vim is certainly not a hard requirement for your job anyway so you can keep using your trusted IDE and learn Vim on the side, properly, at your own rhythm.

> So I “only” need to learn vim core editing syntax.

You can also do that _within_ your IDE.

> Reading the help does not help all the time when starting from scratch even more for non native English speakers

You would know this is nonsense if you had actually opened it.