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Easing into VIM

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The other night, I watched one of Luke Smith 's videos on VIM (embedded below) and got inspired. I've always been keyboard centric and been a fan of taking the time to learn keyboard shortcuts. And although I don't like the idea of abandoning my beautiful IDE for a text editor, I thought that adding some more macros to my life would only make it better. This is what I've played with thus far. Installing the VIM plugin into Visual Studio Code lets me play around with it in controlled doses and let me use my editor as normal in vanilla mode  when Vim comes to much. Vim mode is also supported in many of JetBrains' products , such as Rider . First things first - once you've installed the plugin, to toggle it off , use the command palette and search for toggle vim . And once you've done it that first time, it's right there in recently used . Now when we're operating in a safe environment, let's get some use out of the Vim macros! Things that caught