The simpler sales pitch is that vim can do everything you can and cannot imagine. Just do a search for what you want to accomplish and find out how it is done.
First time users should just go through vimtutor, which will start vim with a document that shows you all the basic functionality and let's you do all these things, so you can build muscle memory.
As for the things vim can do that you cannot even imagine: you can type stuff in vim, let's say text_A, then undo this and write something else, let's say text_B. If you now decide text_A is really where it's at, in normal editors you're fucked, but vim can actually get it back: with this plugin
Vim Tutorial: Tips to Write Code Faster
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The simpler sales pitch is that vim can do everything you can and cannot imagine. Just do a search for what you want to accomplish and find out how it is done.
First time users should just go through vimtutor, which will start vim with a document that shows you all the basic functionality and let's you do all these things, so you can build muscle memory.
As for the things vim can do that you cannot even imagine: you can type stuff in vim, let's say text_A, then undo this and write something else, let's say text_B. If you now decide text_A is really where it's at, in normal editors you're fucked, but vim can actually get it back: with this plugin