I set all 376 Vim options and I’m still a fool

I set all 376 Vim options and I’m still a foolby Evan Hahn, posted Jan 16, 2026I set all of Vim’s configuration options. I still feel far from mastery.First impressions of Vim: wowI first saw someone use Vim during an internship in 2012.I had been coding for many years and I fancied myself pretty good at shortcuts, but I was quickly humbled. I watched in awe as experienced users zipped around the code. A single keystroke could move the cursor halfway across the file to exactly the right spot. Code was ripped apart and reshaped like putty.“Wow,” I thought to myself, and probably said out loud.13 years later, still clumsyI vowed to master this editor but I was slow. When I wasn’t accidentally opening some unknown menu, I was taking an uneconomical path through the code. I pressed j…

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