Using VIM for PHP/Symfony development

VIM can be a great editor for PHP/Symfony development, after using VIM for many years this talk shows why VIM can be a great alternative for development.

https://github.com/gigo6000/dotfiles

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1. Using VIM for PHP Development And other languages… Carlos Mafla github.com/gigo600 @gigo6000 meetup.com/phpcali
2. About Me • Web Developer (Backend, DevOps, Frontend developer, etc ) • 10+ years of working with PHP • 5+ years of working with Symfony (remember Askeet?) • Scalable Path • @gigo6000 (Twitter, Instagram, Github)
7. Choosing an editor is subjective performance is not
8. Memory Usage https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6
9. Opening a file https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6
10. Search and Replace https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6
11. Is not that hard… once you get used to it
12. VIM it’s just different
13. Why use VIM? • Very fast • Available on every server you SSH • Highly customizable • Productivity
14. Feel like a cool hacker
15. Don’t use your mouse
16. Use your keyboard
17. Protips
18. Map your caps lock to Esc
19. Increase your key repeat speed
20. Relative numbers
21. Moves and commands
22. Modes • I - INSERT • N - NORMAL • V - VISUAL • others …
23. Basic moves • H- Move cursor left • J - Move cursor down • K- Move cursor up • L- Move cursor right
24. Nice moves • gg - beginning of file • G- End of file • w - Beginnig of next word • A - Go to end of line (insert) • / - Search string
25. Copy and Paste • v and shift + v - select • y - copy • x - cut • p - paste
26. Search / replace :%s/carloz/carlos/g :%s/carloz/carlos/gc r - replace current character cw - change current word
27. Plugins
28. Plugins • Vundle - Plugin manager • NERDTree - File tree viewer • vim-colorschemes - Color schemes • vim-jinja - Twig syntax • vim-surround - Easily surround things • ctrlp.vim - Fuzzy search • vim-airline - Pretty status bar • ultisnips - Code snippets
29. Plugin manager Vundle
30. File tree viewer NERDTree
31. Color schemes vim-colorschemes
32. Twig highlight vim-jinja
33. Surround things vim-surround
34. Fuzzy search ctrlp
35. Nice status bar vim-airline
36. Code Snippets ultisnips
37. Demo
38. ~/.vimrc
39. Dotfiles • Reuse and share your VIM config • Some examples: • https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles • https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles • https://github.com/colbycheeze/dotfiles • https://github.com/gigo6000/dotfiles
40. Create your own dotfiles… and steal from others
41. Other ways to start learning VIM • Vim Adventures Game: http://vim-adventures.com/ • Vimium Chrome extension: https://vimium.github.io/
42. Other things you can do • Code completion - YouCompleteMe • Linting- syntastic
43. Resources • https://medium.com/usevim/the-importance-of-the-home-row- f65a43dde1fd • https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/remapping-caps-lock-key- escape-macos-sierra • https://hackernoon.com/learning-vim-what-i-wish-i-knew-b5dca186bef7 • http://bytefluent.com/vivify/ • https://medium.com/@amit.kulkarni/learn-linux-vim-basic- features-19134461ab85 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HF4jSyPpvs
44. Keep trying Happy Coding!
45. Gracias