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Introduction to Vim
Vim is a powerful text editor that is highly customizable through plugins. It uses modal editing where normal mode is for commands and insert mode is for typing. Vim emphasizes efficient editing through its operator-motion model where commands like delete, change, and yank are combined with motions like word, line, and parentheses. It has a steep learning curve but can greatly increase productivity for programmers.
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Introduction to Vim
- 2. What is Vim? Advanced programmer‘s text editor Designed expressly for efficient text editing IDE-like features not built-in, but 1000‘s of plugins Highly customizable and extensible Incredibly powerful—will double or triple your productivity! Steep learning curve—takes years to master
- 4. Installing Vim Linux/Unix:Comes installed with practically all distributions OSX: Ships with Vim, but use MacVim for a GUI: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ Tip: Use iTerm2 for 256-color color schemes! Windows: Use gVim: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
- 5. Download vimfiles Downloadmy configuration files to start If git is installed: > cd ~ > git clone http://github.com/thenovices/dotfiles > ln –s dotfiles/.vim* . Otherwise, download zip from http://github.com/thenovices/dotfiles
- 6. What are wedoing? Whirlwind tour of Vim‘s key features Come back and use this powerpoint as a reference Play around with me! http://bit.ly/yfGl30
- 7. Vim Philosophy 1.Modal Editing 2.Operatorsand Motions
- 8. The Modal Editor We spend more time reading and editing than typing! Normal mode: All keystrokes are interpreted as commands Insert mode: Regular typing as you know it Visual mode: Highlighting … more!
- 9. Surviving in Vim i – Gets you into insertion mode <ESC> – Always gets you back to normal mode :wq<Enter> – Saves and quits Vim
- 10. Advanced movement Vimis all about saving keystrokes! Many many motion commands. This is some text ^ – begin line beginning ^ b e w $ end cursor word $ – end line
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- 12. Operators d –Delete c – Change (delete and go into insertion mode) y – Yank (Copy) v – Visual/Highlight Combine with motions to great effect! Type an operator twice to act upon the entire line.
- 13. More Common Commands V – Visual line highlighting o – Create new line below and go into insertion mode x – Delete character under cursor R – Go into replacement mode (try it!) u – Undo (very helpful ) A – Append to end of line (goes into insertion mode)
- 14. Text Objects w– word (delimited by punctuation) W – word (delimited by whitespace) ) – matching set of parentheses (also [], {}, <>, ‗‘, ―‖) t – XML tag (e.g. <html></html>)
- 15. Putting it alltogether
- 16. Find and Replace / – Searches in the document for some string n – Goes to next occurrence N – Goes to previous occurrence :%s/foo/bar – replace all occurrences of ‗foo‘ with ‗bar‘ in the entire document. (Key token: ‗%‘) You can use regular expressions as well!
- 17. What now? Onceyou‘ve mastered the basics, gradually pick up more and more Vim tricks. Learn one thing at a time Explore Vim plugins.
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- 19. Advanced Topics Windows Tabs Buffers Macros Marks Visual Blocks
- 20. Popular Plugins Surround.vim Fugitive.vim (Git integration) Rails.vim (Rails integration) NERD_tree.vim (File Explorer) Tabular.vim (Alignment, tables) Snipmate.vim (Textmate-like snippets)
- 21. Resources and Links vimtutor (30-minutes) and :help usr_02.txt (manual) Learn Vim Progressively (good way to start off) http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/ Treasure Trove of Vim Tricks: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with- vim/1220118#1220118 Why do those nutheads use Vim? (like a showcase) http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html Comprehensive list of Vim tips and tricks (advanced!!) http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html Brandon‘s dotfiles: http://github.com/thenovices/dotfiles
- 22. More Advanced Links http://vimcasts.org https://github.com/tpope/tpope https://github.com/ryanb/dotfiles https://github.com/languages/VimL
Editor's Notes
- #9 When you think about it, we spend much more time reading and editing text than actually typing in text. But when we have to read and edit text, we end up having to use the mouse, or buttons or keyboard shortcuts. Why should the insertion mode be the default mode?In Vim, keys are interpreted differently depending on what mode you’re in. In insertion mode, typing ‘j’ types out ‘j’, but in normal mode, typing ‘j’ makes you go down a line.