Stuck in Vim

See what’s possible with the Vim text editor! A demo of how an engineer who couldn’t quit Vim uses this customizable text editor during their day-to-day work, a peek into the Vim plugin development community, and some DIY shortcut tricks.

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1. stuck in vim :help! => E478: Don't panic!
2. Disclaimers • Vim's just a text editor. Don't wanna get caught up in "text editor wars" • High initial learning curve • Everyone's vim journey is different
3. Why Vim?
4. Demo
5. Toolbox • Everything within reach • command line is my Integrated Dev Environment • vim mode on command line
6. Toolbox Example: API call from your text editor :read !curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titl es=Frida_Kahlo&prop=pageimages&format=json&pithumbsiz e=500"
7. Economy of Movement
8. Example: Aliases! pry open ~/.vimrc create two new aliases
9. Home row a - append s - substitute d - delete action f - find next character g(g), G - go to top or bottom of file
10. Home row (continued) h - left j - up k - down l - right vim maze.txt
11. Muscle memory
12. Example: Mnemonics! ciw - change inner word ci" - change in quotes d$ - delete until end of line cs"' - change surrounding " to ' d} - delete until end of block
13. Example: Search and replace open test replace a frequent word with something else Find keys in json blob: \("\w\+":\) Delete keys in json blob: %s/\("\w\+":\)//g Delete values in json blob %s/\("\w\+":\).*$/\1/g Advanced Regex
14. It's everywhere! macOS, BSD, Linux, Windows, and more
15. How to get started! - vimtutor - use vim all the time! - vim mode on Atom / Sublime / VSCode - watch other vim users (YouTube, shoulder surfing) - look at .vimrc