[kirurik]

I did the neovim tutorial which I accessed via :Tutor, I see now that vimtutor has some divergences, I will do that tutorial also, to improve my muscle memory and knowledge.

Thanks for your other tips as well. I'll try and approach it that way, just doing it little by little, I don't always need VSCode and for simple edits its already way better than nano, although tbf I didn't take the time to learn all of nanos functionality.

It probably is best to take it slow and not cut corners. Play some vimgolf and take it slow, try to get the base stuff like regex search and replace down. Learning regex well can be applied to other things as well, so it is worth it to practice it in the context of vim.

[johncoltrane]

I would stay away from vimgolf if I were you because it focuses too heavily on a useless metric, number of keystrokes. The so-called "Vim language" is about expressiveness, intuitiveness, composability, etc., so performing a task in 20 keystrokes is meaningless if it took two minutes to figure out each of them. 40 or 50 keystrokes that flowed without thinking are always better.

Also I must say that my regex-fu improved dramatically after I picked Vim.

[kirurik]

True, it is meaningless how good one is at vimgolf if it doesn't flow naturally