Vim introduction and basic features.

1. a Serious Text Editor
Juri Timošin

2. whoami
● Infrastructure
engineer
● 8 years of text
editing
● 3 year vim “guru”
● Ruby fan

3. I've been using vi and vim also for some 20 years and
I'm still learning new things.
Anonymous @Stackoverflow

4. Learn Vim?! What for?
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Learn once, use everywhere
Lightweight
Fast (even with huge files)
Edit zip files
Lifelong
Vim is everywhere
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Gmail, G+ / Facebook
Google Rss Readers
Firefox / Chrome (vimperator / vimium)
Touchscreens! (WAT!?)

5. Learn Vim?! What for?
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Learn once, use everywhere
Lightweight
Fast (even with huge files)
Lifelong
Home row friendly
Vim is everywhere
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Gmail, G+ / Facebook
Google Rss Readers
Firefox / Chrome (vimperator / vimium)
Touchscreens! (WAT!?)
Even Your Kitchen and Bookshelf

6. Modes
Replace
insert
R
v
Esc
i
Normal
Visual
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Command
Line
Insert

8. Basic Features
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hjkl
0 ^ $ (home and end)
w e b W E B (word vs WORD)
f t F T (forward and back)
gg H M L G
d dd ( dd = act on line )
y yy
pP
u
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9. Sprechen Sie Vim?
● d$
● y2E
● d2t,
● 2i
● “ay2f3 (s/a/+/ - to act on system clipboard)

10. Command Line
● :help [topic]
● :!<shell command>
● :%s/ddd/ttt/[gci]

11. Where To Start
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Vim: revisited
Learn Vim Progressively
Vim Adventures
Why do those nutheads use vi?!
Vim as your IDE
Vim for Rubyists
Vim for Happy Java Coding
Different cheat sheets
Books
vimtutor