I'm surprised they don't even mention vimtutor. It's preinstalled on every machine with vim (to the best of my knowledge). This seems like a cool project, but might as well give a shout-out to the original concept.
benjaminclauss · 43m ago
These little tutorials and games are great. I played VIM Adventures.
However, one thing I really struggle with is learning when I can be doing something more efficiently. I rarely use markers, anything beyond default registers, commands, and so on.
I'm giving Neovim a try for my systems course trying to get better but I do wish these sorts of games pushed me to get better at these more advanced usage tricks.
soperj · 3m ago
Oh man, I use markers all the time.
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mark a spot, then yank or delete everything to that line. Way easier to do it accurately rather than 13yy or however many lines you're yanking.
twile · 20m ago
This is cool, I would love to see some more rounds and vim lessons! I use a lot of these basics on the daily.
sheerun · 26m ago
I like how it starts with how to exit vim, but let's be honest: word jumps are not that common to teach second
omidmash · 24m ago
I really dig this. I might work on it a bit to include it in my lessons.
I think this one asks you to pay for it after a bit. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just felt bad about getting a little bit in, and then being hit with a decent pay wall.
jrm4 · 53m ago
Right, I mean, author has the right to do this -- but it still seems like a gloriously stupid thing to try to get someone to pay for in this way; like what market is this?
Like, I'd bet "Pay $10 if you like it" / ReaperWare would earn this person literally an order of magnitude more money.
omidmash · 25m ago
Yep. I was trying to buy some licenses for my school, and they only offerend subscriptions in which I am not interested. A shame! Such a great game.
reddare · 58m ago
Thank you for the warning.
I found a pricing dialog after clicking “buy a license”, it said that six months of full access to the game costs $35.
JoshTriplett · 54m ago
Personally, I would happily pay for vim-adventures, but never monthly. It provides one-time value, it should have one-time cost. I'd much rather pay a one-time cost and get a downloadable local copy.
However, one thing I really struggle with is learning when I can be doing something more efficiently. I rarely use markers, anything beyond default registers, commands, and so on.
I'm giving Neovim a try for my systems course trying to get better but I do wish these sorts of games pushed me to get better at these more advanced usage tricks.
mark a spot, then yank or delete everything to that line. Way easier to do it accurately rather than 13yy or however many lines you're yanking.
https://vim-adventures.com/
Like, I'd bet "Pay $10 if you like it" / ReaperWare would earn this person literally an order of magnitude more money.
I found a pricing dialog after clicking “buy a license”, it said that six months of full access to the game costs $35.