Vim

Overview

Vim is a terminal-based text editor specially tailored to programming. It is best known for its unique keyboard shortcuts and editing style.

There are generally two choices when it comes to terminal-based text editors. You are free to choose whatever text editor you prefer, but because the course staff uses Vim exclusively and teaching two text editors is counter-productive, this course will focus only on Vim.

Lessons

• Vim as Language

• Editing & Navigation

• Searching, Substituting, Text Objects, and Yanking

• Tabs, Jumps, & the Clipboard

Resources

Essential Reads

• vimtutor
  • Command line program that teaches you Vim interactively
• Learning Vim in 2014
  • An excellent collection of articles that outline how to get the most out of learning Vim.
  • The Basics
    • Introduction of Vim's history, and suggestions for how to approach learning Vim
  • Vim as Language
    • Teaches Vim as a language, a crucial paradigm to understand when learning Vim

One-a-day tips

• Learn Vim Progressively
  • Good at outlining small sets of commands that you can learn to incorporate into your workflow incrementally
• Vim Cheatsheet
  • Quick reference

Interesting, non-essential reads

• Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
  • Famous StackOverflow post explaining how to use Vim as a language

Reference and Next Level Vim usage

• Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
  • Very comprehensive look at Vim, from using it as en editor to adding plugins, to writing plugins yourself.