IdeaVim is a king by Nemanja Vasic [INIT 2022]

In this presentation I will speak about my experience with using IdeaVim, how I started, why I am using it and why I think that IdeaVim is a King. I will go through some basic Vim features and at the end I will do a small demo to demonstrate IdeaVim.

About the speaker:
Full-stack developer with 5+ years of professional experience. Motivated to try different technologies in order to contribute to the development of his clients and accelerate their growth.

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2. IDEA VIM IS A
   KING
   

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3. $ WHOAMI
   https://github.com/GoodbyePlanet
   

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4. PRODUCTDOCK
   

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5. WHAT THIS TALK IS NOT ABOUT
   

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6. VIM
   

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7. IDEA VIM
   

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8. HOW MY VIM JOURNEY STARTED
   

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9. VIM AS LANGUAGE
   Verbs (operators), nouns, adverbs
   Verbs => d: delete, c: change, y: yank/copy, p: paste, v:visual
   Nouns => w: word, s: sentence, b: block, t: tag, p: paragraph
   Adverbs => i: inside, a: around, t: until something, f: find something, num:
   number
   

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10. TEXT OBJECTS
    iw => inner word
    aw => a word
    ip => inner paragraph
    i” => inner quotes
    it => inner tag
    at => a tag
    

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11. BUILDING COMMANDS
    dw => delete word
    d3w => delete three words
    dt. => delete until dot
    ci( => change inside parentheses
    ct} => change until closing curly bracket
    yip => copy inside paragraph
    

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12. VIM ESSENTIAL MODES
    NORMAL MODE => Esc
    INSERT MODE => i: Insert, a: Append
    VISUAL MODEL => v, V
    COMMAND MODE => :, /
    

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13. BASIC MOVEMENTS
    k => move up one line
    j => move down one line
    h => move left one character
    l => move right one character
    w => move by one word forward
    b => move by one word back
    0 => move to beginning of the line
    $ => move to the end of the line
    

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14. COMBINING WITH NUMBERS
    3j => move three lines down
    3k => move three lines up
    3w => move three words forward
    5$ => move to the end of the fifth line down
    6+ => move six lines down to first non-blank character
    

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15. BASICS
    :w => write changes to file
    :wq => write changes and exit vim
    :q! => get out of vim (quit), but without saving your changes (!)
    Or better/faster way
    ZZ => write changes and exit vim
    ZQ => get out of vim without saving your changes
    

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16. DEMO
    

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17. HOW TO START WITH VIM
    Vim tutor
    Vim adventures
    Copy someone’s .vimrc or .ideavimrc
    

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18. THANK YOU!
    

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