Vim: A 1.5 Year Retrospective

Abhra Biswas
1 min readJul 3, 2020

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Thoughts from a newish Vim user, for brand new Vim users

I was scrolling through Twitter a couple months ago and saw that Tim Pope, a renowned Vim plug-in developer, had tweeted about building this in Animal Crossing:

And I thought yeah, I have, when I was learning the damn modal editor that is Vim itself. Vim is not playin’.

But was it worth it at the end? For me, yes. Check out my 1.5 Year Retrospective below.

Feel free to check out my .vimrc here.

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Abhra Biswas
Abhra Biswas

Written by Abhra Biswas

Front End Developer. SaaS Implementation Engineer. Ex-Law.

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