Is it good to learn or become familiar with the Vi editor before learning Vim?

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How did you learn Vim? What program did you originally code in?

Answer 1

Is it good to learn or become familiar with the Vi editor before learning Vim?

No. It's better to work with Vim right away. The difference there is not so big (the difficulty of entry is the same). If you understand Vim, you can work in Vi as well.

How did you learn Vim?

Having gained patience and printed out a cheat sheet with the functionality of the buttons.
About a month took longer than previous editors/IDEs.

• At first, use only for viewing the code (studied navigation)
  Parallel rules for your needs vimrc
  
• Then I started editing, copying, pasting, using autocorrect, regular expressions.
  
• Then I picked up plugins for convenient work.
  

What program did you originally code in?

Notepad++, VS, eclipse, sublime

Answer 2

> Is it good to learn or get familiar with the Vi editor before learning Vim
No. If you want to write code in vim, start right there. All plugins for working with code are written for vim.