I’ve been switching from Vim to Helix recently. I did the built-in tutor, and whenever I need to configure something, I look it up in the docs. The problem is, I only find what I already know to look for. Without reading the documentation more broadly, I don’t really know what I can configure in the first place.

So I’m curious, do you sit down and read documentation to understand a tool, or do you just search it when you hit a specific problem?

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    2 days ago

    These days I prefer reading manuals and documentation to get the most basic version of anything running and then build up on it. If anything goes wrong, I go to stackoverflow