I started using Neovim for the past couple of months. It is a steep learning curve, and it is painful to write code because I have to keep thinking about going into edit mode. The pain rapidly subsides whenever I discover a faster way to insert, delete, or replace a block of text or characters. Here’s an example, if I press the character d then shift-$, it will delete all the characters from the active cursor position to the end of the line.

My favourite motion keys are w and b; w goes one word forward, and b goes one word backward.

The undo action is simple too, it is just u.

Making all caps or all lower case is only a few key strokes. For example,

press g + U and then pressing w will change the word from lower case to upper case, or vice-versa pressing g + u and then press w will change the word from Upper to all lower case.

There is much to learn still and each time I use it, I get faster and more fluid and purposeful.

You should give it a shot.

Links

https://neovim.io/

Original Vim Editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)