VIM FOR VISUAL STUDIO VSVIM Nicola Iarocci nicolaiarocci.com

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

VIM KEYPOINTS

CROSS PLATFORM

VERY FAST AND EFFICIENT CODE WRITING

NEVER HAVE TO LEAVE THE KEYBOARD

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

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 ($)

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

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

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

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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