[slavapestov]

> My biggest struggle has been finding good resources to learn the "proper" way to use it

Why stop at vi? Go all the way and re-orient your entire lifestyle around Unix text processing: vi, awk, sed, troff, and sh.

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf

[ninjin]

I remember jumping a bit when I saw the authors: Dale Doughterty and Tim O'Reilly. In all honesty, I should spend more time with the book as I have only used it to get a good introduction to troff in the past. Another tool which it is difficult to "modern" documentation for.

[wyclif]

Oh, man. That book really brings back memories. That was my introduction to text processing back in the day.