vim-sensible

That’s a good question. The built in tutorial is actually really good, you can launch it with “vimtutor” on the command line. It doesn’t give you everything, but its instructions and text to try things out on in the editor itself, which I find a good way to learn. It isn’t particularly programming focused either. For getting used to the motions especially https://vim-adventures.com can be a fun way, in its game format. For getting started I’d say don’t worry about plugins much, but get https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible at least so the defaults meant for vi don’t get in the way. The only other thing you might want is a format syntax if your preferred note syntax isn’t highlighted well by default or something. Polyglot can be good to stave that off but really I’d say learn on a really lean config, and get used to using :help or similar.

I didn't realise vim Vs vi purist was a thing. I'm aware that for a while vim has had some backwards compatibility setting that people recommended turning off to get more modern defaults. And that Tim Pope had a plugin that took you one step beyond that: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible > Think of sensible.vim as one step above 'nocompatible' mode: a universal set of defaults that (hopefully) everyone can agree on. And that neovim took the opportunity to make an updated set of defaults: https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#nvim-defaults

You don’t want any modern conveniences? Not even stuff from here[0]? [0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible/blob/master/plugin/sen...