> I'm still giving it a shot because everyone raves about how Vim makes them so much faster, but am I crazy for being highly skeptical at this stage?
You are not crazy. Vim default bindings are less intuitive than windows/macos/gedit/word default bindings which are all about using arrow keys with a combination of ctrl/alt/cmd. There's logic to vim bindings though but it's not the same. The ctrl/alt/cmd combos have equivalent in insert/visual/normal mode and <leader> (a special key, usullay "\") but there's nothing intuitive about those at first.
I think replacing vscode with vim can't be done in one hour. First one has to learn the modes and the bindings then there's the whole compiling/linting/fixing/debugging/custom_macros/snippets/etc to add. I love vim and its modal interface and how it's easier on my joints than default bindings and I can't use vscode without a vim extension but I am not sure I'd invest time in learning it if I had first started using vscode as my main editor. For instance: I am bad at replacing identical chunk of text in vim (I can do visual mode and shift insert and regex replace but I can see how column editing seem easier and looks better in vscode).
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Oh, and I use "0" to position the cursor at the beginning of the line. (and I just noticed by trying out what ^ does that I usually do 0e to position it at first word/character of the line to get the same result).
You are not crazy. Vim default bindings are less intuitive than windows/macos/gedit/word default bindings which are all about using arrow keys with a combination of ctrl/alt/cmd. There's logic to vim bindings though but it's not the same. The ctrl/alt/cmd combos have equivalent in insert/visual/normal mode and <leader> (a special key, usullay "\") but there's nothing intuitive about those at first.
I think replacing vscode with vim can't be done in one hour. First one has to learn the modes and the bindings then there's the whole compiling/linting/fixing/debugging/custom_macros/snippets/etc to add. I love vim and its modal interface and how it's easier on my joints than default bindings and I can't use vscode without a vim extension but I am not sure I'd invest time in learning it if I had first started using vscode as my main editor. For instance: I am bad at replacing identical chunk of text in vim (I can do visual mode and shift insert and regex replace but I can see how column editing seem easier and looks better in vscode).
my 2รง:
Oh, and I use "0" to position the cursor at the beginning of the line. (and I just noticed by trying out what ^ does that I usually do 0e to position it at first word/character of the line to get the same result).