:vim! theory + practice

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:vim! theory + practice @jm3

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:help theory

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:history bill% ls ~/1976

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:why vim?

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:turing-complete

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:turing-complete

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any editor will “get you there”

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Vim is a stick-shift 2 1 3 4 R

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:taoist view

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jm3’s “Tao of Vim” • minimal distractions • to know vim is to know unix • in vim, editing is programming • vim is everywhere

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:beware false-prophets •“don’t use the mouse” •“don’t use the arrow keys” •“use my dotfiles” :) see Yehuda’s “Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong”

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:review theory ~ any editor will get you there ~ stick shift ~ tao: + minimalism + to know vim is to know unix + editing is programming + vim is everywhere ~ beware “false prophets”: + mouse == OK, arrow keys are fine

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:help practice :q :qq :q!Q :1qqZZ!q :WTF how do i get out of here?

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:basics! launch + save + exit

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:basics foo.rb :e Edit foo.rb

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:basics : w Write

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:basics eXit : x

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:basics Quit : q

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:basics w : Write + Quit q

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:basics Z Z GTFO

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switching modes…

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Command Mode Editing Mode two very diﬀerent modes Esc

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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow! i a o entering Edit mode:

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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow! i a o entering Edit mode:

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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow! i a o entering Edit mode:

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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow! i a o entering Edit mode:

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Basics review: edit write exit :w :e :x insert append ohhhh a i o

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:motion!

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:motion j h k movement l :masochism

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Remember: word + line + block jump + search

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:motion w forward word back word b

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:motion ⏎ line

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:motion ] forward block backward block [

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:motion foo / Search

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:motion foo ? Search backwards

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:motion Go to line number 10 G

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:motion G Jump to ”corners” G 1

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/ Motion review: word + line + block ⏎ w b [ ] jump + search 47 G foo

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:editing!

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:editing d delete change c i insert append a

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Commands stack like LEGOs

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d w Delete word

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d w Delete word

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d 3 Delete 3 words w

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3 d Delete 3 words w

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w d 3 Delete 3 words

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c w Change word

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c w Change word

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D Delete line

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10 D Delete 10 lines

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D 10 Delete 10 lines

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foo / d Delete to “foo”

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foo / d Delete to “foo”

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foo / d Delete to “foo”

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:ﬁle-slinging!

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:ﬁle-slinging foo.rb :e Edit foo.rb remember this?

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:ﬁle-slinging :e Edit some-dir try this! ~

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:ﬁle-slinging :help NERDTree github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

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:magic powers

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Demo ^ (ctl+6) toggle + jump between buﬀers list buffers with :ls jump with 1^

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Demo recent ﬁles toggle previous ﬁle

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Demo tab complete anything SuperTab git://github.com/ervandew/supertab

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Demo Tabular git://github.com/godlygeek/tabular alignment

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Demo outline mode Markdown-Folding git://github.com/nelstrom/vim-markdown-folding

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Demo keep your place set cursorline

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Demo balance braces %

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Demo jsHint highlight JS errors on save git://github.com/Shutnik/jshint2.vim

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Demo highlight syntax colorscheme solarized * first thing I wanted in a text editor