Vim for Visual Studio

Presented at Microsoft TecHeroes, Channel 9, May 2016. See the live episode (Italian) here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TecHeroes/TecHeroes-VSVim-Editor

Transcript

1. VIM FOR VISUAL STUDIO
   VSVIM
   Nicola Iarocci
   nicolaiarocci.com
   

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2. VSVIM FOR VISUAL STUDIO
   BRIEF STORY OF VIM
   ▸ “vi” dates back to 1976, for Unix
   systems
   ▸ “Vim” (Vi IMproved) debuts in
   1991
   ▸ Originally released on the Amiga
   ▸ Default on all *nix system (OSX,
   Linux, etc.)
   ▸ Available for all platforms,
   Windows included
   

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3. VIM KEYPOINTS
   

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4. CROSS PLATFORM
   

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5. VERY FAST AND
   EFFICIENT CODE
   WRITING
   

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6. NEVER HAVE TO
   LEAVE THE
   KEYBOARD
   

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7. HERE IS WHY VIM USES
   HJKL AS ARROW KEYS
   BY THE WAY
   ADM-3A TERMINAL USED BY BILL JOY TO CODE THE ORIGINAL VI
   

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8. VSVIM FOR VISUAL STUDIO
   VSVIM
   ▸ A Visual Studio 2010+ Extension
   ▸ Integrates familiar key binding experience
   of Vim directly into Visual Studio
   ▸ Rich set of vim features supported
   ▸ Created and actively maintained by Jared
   Parsons (MSFT)
   ▸ Open source, code is on GitHub
   ▸ Supports vim configuration files (.vimrc)
   ▸ ViEmu is a good alternative for previous
   VS versions ($)
   

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   VIM VERBS
   ▸ d: delete
   ▸ c: change
   ▸ y: yank (copy)
   ▸ v: visually select
   ▸ i: insert before the cursor
   ▸ I: insert at the beginning of line
   ▸ a: append after the cursor
   ▸ A: append at the end of line
   ▸ .: repeat last command
   ▸ … and more
   

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10. TEXT
    VIM MODIFIERS
    ▸ i: inside
    ▸ a: around
    ▸ t: searches for something and stops before it (to)
    ▸ f: searchers for something and lands on it
    ▸ #: number (e.g.: 1, 2, 10)
    ▸ 0: begin of line
    ▸ ^: first word in line
    ▸ $: end of line
    ▸ … and a lot more
    

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11. TEXT
    VIM NOUNS
    ▸ w: word
    ▸ W: WORD (delimited by whitespace)
    ▸ b: beginning of word
    ▸ B: beginning of WORD
    ▸ e: end of word
    ▸ E: end of WORD
    ▸ %: matching parenthesis
    ▸ p or }: paragraph
    ▸ t: tag (HTML/XML)
    ▸ b: block (think code)
    ▸ … and more
    

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12. TEXT
    VIM “ACTIONS”: VERB+(MODIFIER)+NOUN
    ▸ dw: (d)elete (w)ord under cursor
    ▸ d2w: (d)elete two (w)ords
    ▸ cis: (c)hange (i)nside the (s)entence you are in
    ▸ yip: (y)ank/copy (i)nside the (p)aragraph you are in
    ▸ ct<: (c)hange (t)o open bracket
    ▸ d$: (d)elete until the end of the line
    ▸ … you get the idea
    

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13. DEMO TIME!
    

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