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Does the “Learn Vim the Hard Way” website still exist?

by manofmanysmiles on 8/15/23, 5:03 PM with 22 comments

I’ve been looking and can only find “Learn Vimscript The Hard Way”.

The website I remember had a man in front of some control panel, maybe wearing a space suite, and started with a section named something like “Learn to Crawl”.

Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

by aydio on 8/15/23, 5:57 PM
You may be looking for "Learn Vim Progressively" by Yann Esposito. It's also how I got into Vim almost 10 years ago.
https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressi...
by d4rti on 8/15/23, 5:13 PM
There is the vim adventures site https://vim-adventures.com/ but it doesn’t sound quite like what you are looking for.
by mrklein on 8/15/23, 5:26 PM
https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/
by Guybrush_T on 8/15/23, 6:21 PM
Are you implying there is an easy way to learn Vim? :)
I remember the "Learn Python the Hard Way" web-site, but I'm having trouble even finding that. It looks like there is a book and a course instead. I wonder if the web-site version of these courses were eventually phased out?
This might be a good alternative:
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/vim/
by alhirzel on 8/15/23, 6:04 PM
Unrelated to Vim but reminds me of https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Wa...
by i_love_unix on 8/16/23, 3:17 AM
Everyone’s throwing in a vim learning resource so I suppose I’ll join in with this: Learn Vim the Smart Way - https://learnvim.irian.to/
by mattl on 8/15/23, 5:14 PM
https://learncodethehardway.org
I don't know if there was a vim book. There's a Unix book.
by riffic on 8/15/23, 6:04 PM
google can't seem to find it but it did find this which seems up your alley:
https://danielmiessler.com/p/vim/