Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by distcs 1126 days ago
Do these vim tutor web apps provide any advantage over learning with the real Vim with the vimtutor command?

Do learners not worry that the web apps might not emulate Vim accurately and the inaccuracies might make you pick up bad habits at best or learn outright wrong keybindings at worst?

I mean if you are going to use Vim, you will probably run `vim` sometime. You might well run `vimtutor`. It's a simple command. It's free. It's available with Vim. The whole tutorial is less than 1000 lines long.

1 comments

There’s a market segment of people that do coding tutorials with their iPads at bedtime. You’re not going to sit in actual vim since really, the target audience wants micro lessons