I heard from many sources that my productivity would increase if I used Vim as my text editor. I attempted to scale the steep learning cliff (not so much a curve...). One week I decided that I would learn by forcing myself to use vim all week. Since that week I've embraced my inner vim. In this talk I will go over the resources I used to learn vim and the basic cool operations that I love with vim. Topics will include basic text operations, vimrc, creating color schemes, and using vim plugins. If you ever wanted to give vim a shot but didn't know where to start, then you can start here.

1. VIM
how one week changed my mind

2. Who am I?
Jonathan Birkholz
codemav.com/rookieone
@rookieone

3. ChaiONE
Houston, TX
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6. Who are you?

7. One Week Challenge
vim and only vim
for one week

8. Why Learn vim
expand horizon
challenge yourself
be cool

9. What I love about vim
control
customization

10. vim != FAST

11. Not an Expert

12. Outline
• Vim Introduction
• Learning Resources
• Normal, Edit, Visual Modes
• Plugins
• Color Schemes
• Vimrc

13. vim History
• Bram Moolenaar released in 1991
• original copy of vi
• feature set now surpasses vi
• free and open source
• supported on many platforms

14. • like bikes
Text Editor

15. Advanced Text Editors

16. Textmate

17. IDEs

18. vim

19. Where can I learn about vim?

20. www.vimcasts.org
www.peepcode.com
www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/

22. Vimmy

23. Now lets get our vim on

24. File Commands
:q quit
:w save
:e open

25. vim is modal
Normal
Input
Visual

26. Normal Mode

27. Basic Navigation H J K L
K
H L
J

28. HJKL Fail

29. Easy Mode
use your keyboard arrows

30. g File
G

31. ^ $
Line

32. w skip word
word word word
b previous word

33. W skip WORD
word word word
B previous WORD

34. Jump to Line Number
:n
nG
n line number

35. DEMO

36. Edit Mode

37. I i insert
Hello World
append a A

38. open above
O
Hello World
o
open below

39. exit edit mode; return
esc
to normal mode

40. DEMO

41. Delete Yank
Cut, Copy, Paste

42. Delete aka Cut
dd delete line
d delete word

43. Yank aka Copy
Yank / Copy
• yy yy yank line
• cw yw yank word

44. p paste after
Hello World
P paste before

45. DEMO

46. vimisms

47. w word
d line
d $ to end of line
+ ^ to begin of line
g to begin of file
G to end of file

48. :wq save quit
ea append at end of word
cw replace word

49. vim comamnds
> do it
. repeat
u undo / reverse

50. upper vs lower case
can be opposite command
can also be extreme version of
command

51. DEMO

52. Visual Mode

53. Visual Mode
v select range
ctrl + v select block

54. DEMO

55. Search

56. Search
/ searchtext

57. navigate matches
N n
match match
previous match next match

58. move screen focus
zt focus cursor on top
zz focus cursor in middle
zb focus cursor on bottom

59. Replace
:s/old/new

60. DEMO

61. Plugins
~/.vim/plugin
C:Program Files (x86)Vimvimfilesplugin
Found online
www.vim.org
www.github.com

62. NERD Tree
project directory tree

63. Fugitive
vim plugin for git

64. Rails
vim plugin for rails

65. Pathogen
vim plugin for... plugins

66. Janus
github.com/carlhuda/janus
opinionated vim package for Mac

67. DEMO

68. Color Schemes

69. Color Schemes
comes with several schemes
:colorscheme name
:color name

70. Custom Color Schemes
vimcast : create color scheme

71. color schemes
~/.vim/colors
C:Program Files (x86)Vimvimfilescolors
syntaxes
~/.vim/syntax
C:Program Files (x86)Vimvimfilessyntax

72. DEMO

73. vimrc

74. what
set defaults
map keys
personalize your vim experience
where
~/.vimrc
C:Program Files (x86)Vim_vimrc

75. nmap <silent> <c-n> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>
map ctrl+n to NERD Tree Toggle

76. set guifont=Menlo Regular:h18
set font to Menlo font size 18

77. " Presentation colors and config
function! PresentationMode()
colorscheme solarized
set bg=light
set nolist
endfunction
nmap <leader>PR :call PresentationMode()<cr>
pressing PR changes color scheme to solarized

78. DEMO

79. Let’s wrap it up

80. Some things we didn’t cover
Tabs
Windows
Recording / Playback
Running commands
And much, much more

81. Other tools
• Peep Open
• Keycastr

82. vim in other apps
• vimperator - Firefox
• vimium - Chrome
• viEmulator - Visual Studio
• and others...

83. References
Flickr
• vimcast
• vim.org • greasylightbulb
• vim.wikia.com • chocolatebubbles
• u2ultraviolet81
• Star Wars • Dave Linscheid
• Kung Fu Panda

84. www.codemav.com
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85. I needz more vim!
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86. Questions?

87. buffers
:blast
last buffer
File File
:bnext
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