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
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
3. VIM KEYPOINTS
4. CROSS PLATFORM
5. VERY FAST AND EFFICIENT CODE WRITING
6. NEVER HAVE TO LEAVE THE KEYBOARD
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
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 ($)
9. TEXT 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
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 ▸ $: end of line ▸ … and a lot more
11. TEXT VIM NOUNS ▸ w: word ▸ W: WORD (delimited by whitespace) ▸ b: beginning of word ▸ B: beginning of WORD ▸ e: end of word ▸ E: end of WORD ▸ %: matching parenthesis ▸ p or }: paragraph ▸ t: tag (HTML/XML) ▸ b: block (think code) ▸ … and more
12. TEXT VIM “ACTIONS”: VERB+(MODIFIER)+NOUN ▸ dw: (d)elete (w)ord under cursor ▸ d2w: (d)elete two (w)ords ▸ cis: (c)hange (i)nside the (s)entence you are in ▸ yip: (y)ank/copy (i)nside the (p)aragraph you are in ▸ ct<: (c)hange (t)o open bracket ▸ d$: (d)elete until the end of the line ▸ … you get the idea
13. DEMO TIME!