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newsNeovim Plugin for learning purposes, my two cents
I am not afraid of admiting that I have tried several times to learn vim but with no success, yes, I know you will say, please try this or this watch this tutorial or this...
And yeah really I gave several tries to different strategies, I have bought even a book, yes for an editor!! a book.
Even worse, I have tried to code using it and found myself really trying hard, just for fun, and believe me I have gotten some results, following the book's advice is amazing. But I found myself getting stuck and that's on my side, not the book's fault.
Every once in a while I found myself struggling coming with ideas to test things that I learn. And again yes, I am very aware that to be able to learn applying things and attempting projects is the best way rather than going on tutorial hell.
But, I just can't. I am usually dry of ideas to try to do things, like to learn new things, usually either I do the same project again and again and again, or just give up. Why? I think it is related to myself beign unable to produce new things.
Surprisingly every century or more I got a flash or an epiphany of inspiration and get my hands on something I REALLY want to try, like when I wanted to improve this editor (shellcms). Or as in the past post I got involved into creating a tool like for splitting text in chapters and creating a novel splitter static site generator.
This time, I decided to address that struggle learning vim, I like vimtutor but I found it sometimes a little difficult to follow and finding the time to just reopen it and go to the part that you were, I think that it was a little pain.
So really I decided to look for "tutorials", but most of them are outside of vim, and you will have to switch context every time, that is my real pain, switch context to look the book, come on! I want to test myself the thing and get in "pace" to be learning and having fun.
To practice I want straight-forward examples or things to try, and REAL CODE not just random text.
After all my complains I decided not to complain anymore and really put the effort, and create just the thing myself.
So guess what? I found myself doing or redoing a tutorial, but not outside vim.
I ended using neovim because I wanted to avoid vimscript really. But Lua is a great language and a simple one for this.
And in this era of AI, it couldn't be easier to just create a new plugin for a platform using a foreign language for you (I usually use c# not lua)
Here is the result Github 13 modules of pure just excercises you can check verify, reset try again and solves all, short things to do, very clear instructions, no creativity to do extra things, if I want another excercise I can just write it and try it.
Tags: vim