How can I get over the beginner's hump and move around faster?

• vim-smoothie

  12 962 1.8 Vim Script

  Smooth scrolling for Vim done right🥤

I can reccomend practicing using D and U to move around to see if you get more used to it, but there's also the vim-smoothie plugin which might make the scrolling easier to follow. Some other usefull ways of moving around are using { and } to move by paragraph (i.e. to next blank line), [[, [], ][ and ]] which move to the start or end of c-style functions. You might also want to try out a fuzzy finder such as vim-fzf or nvim-telescope where you can use :Rg or :Telescope live-grep respectively where you can start typing part of a line and see a list of the lines that fit alongside a preview window

• fzf.vim

  157 9,450 7.4 Vim Script

  fzf :heart: vim

I can reccomend practicing using D and U to move around to see if you get more used to it, but there's also the vim-smoothie plugin which might make the scrolling easier to follow. Some other usefull ways of moving around are using { and } to move by paragraph (i.e. to next blank line), [[, [], ][ and ]] which move to the start or end of c-style functions. You might also want to try out a fuzzy finder such as vim-fzf or nvim-telescope where you can use :Rg or :Telescope live-grep respectively where you can start typing part of a line and see a list of the lines that fit alongside a preview window

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• telescope.nvim

  322 14,365 9.1 Lua

  Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

  

I can reccomend practicing using D and U to move around to see if you get more used to it, but there's also the vim-smoothie plugin which might make the scrolling easier to follow. Some other usefull ways of moving around are using { and } to move by paragraph (i.e. to next blank line), [[, [], ][ and ]] which move to the start or end of c-style functions. You might also want to try out a fuzzy finder such as vim-fzf or nvim-telescope where you can use :Rg or :Telescope live-grep respectively where you can start typing part of a line and see a list of the lines that fit alongside a preview window

• vim-ficklefold

  1 1 10.0 Vim Script

  Facilitates folding: Toggle between fold methods and apply fold expressions.

If you don't get great results, try changing 'foldmethod' (syntax is usually best but indent often works well). If vim doesn't have syntax support for your language, find a plugin that offers it. Even better if it defines 'foldtext' so your methods collapse down into an easy to read outline. I use vim-ficklefold to manage folds and FastFold to prevent syntax folds from making vim slow.

• FastFold

  10 705 1.7 Vim Script

  Speed up Vim by updating folds only when called-for.

If you don't get great results, try changing 'foldmethod' (syntax is usually best but indent often works well). If vim doesn't have syntax support for your language, find a plugin that offers it. Even better if it defines 'foldtext' so your methods collapse down into an easy to read outline. I use vim-ficklefold to manage folds and FastFold to prevent syntax folds from making vim slow.

• plenary.nvim

  58 2,461 7.5 Lua

  plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified. All the lua functions I don't want to write twice.

  

I mention a lot of plugins here and a huge part of what makes vim amazing is the power of frictionless editor scripting. You can take configuration commands (from : mode) and dump them into a file to make a plugin. Unfortunately, vimscript is kinda butt, but you could use neovim and they seem to have great support for lua (and plenary.nvim seems to be good to fill in as a lua stdlib).

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