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Vimtutor is the easiest, most accesibke, most perfect tool to learn vim.
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While true, as an old Vim user, I'm recommending finding some other modal-editor: too much cruft in Vim.
I hear Helix is modal.
( modal-editors help bash one against one's unconscious-mind's woodenness: forcing switching-of-levels, & if you read "The Design of Everyday Things", which Adam Savage also recommends people read, as he found it life-changing, then you'll read that NOT-switching-levels is a racial mental-defect: we just enforce-harder, instead of switching-levels, & break opportunity we're in!
So, modal-editing helps break that ignorance, giving us better ability to get out from the wrong-level into the right-for-the-context level, & therefore I absolutely recommend modal editors, for nearly-all.
However, vi & vim .. a bit too much cruft, in the crystallization.
Clean-slate optimization of what commands are in, what key-codes are for what, etc, ought produce a better tool. )
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