Introduction to VIM

Introduction to one of the most versatile text editor on the linux system.

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1. Introduction to Zaki Shaheen
2. Agenda • History of vim • Why use vim? • Features • Resources we will use • Basic usage • Advanced usage • Question and answers
3. History of vim • vi created by Bill Joy (co-founder Sun Microsystems) in 1976 for UNIX • Replacement of older editors in UNIX • Vim created by Bram Moolenaar (Google) in 1988
4. Why use VIM? • A text editor available everywhere • Included with all linux distros • Faster editing - no need to take hands off the keyboard • By developers, for developers • Lots of features • OpenSource, Free
5. The Vim story • The vim story
6. Features • syntax highlighting • highly customisable • advanced searching • auto indentation • split windows • “typing at the speed of thought” • etc.
7. Resources we will use • Vim quick reference • Vim for PHP Programmers
8. Learning vim Easy way vimtutor Hard way throw away all other editors for 2 weeks and use the cheat-sheet
9. Be warned You need to learn to touch-type before being productive with vim
10. Open and quit • ‘vim myfile.php’ • :q (quit file) • :q! or ZZ (quit without saving) • :wq or ZQ (quit with saving) • :e myfile.php (edit myfile.php)
11. Vim is modal • normal (ESC) • insert (i when in normal mode) • visual (v when in normal mode) • ...
12. Viewing a file and navigation • In normal mode • Character movement ◦ h j k l • Line movement ◦ ^ $ j k + - • Text movement ◦ w b e ( { } ) • document movement ◦ gg G gk gj • searching ◦ /{pattern}
13. Inserting text a Append under character A Append at the end of line i Insert at character I Insert at the start of line o Insert with new line O Insert with new line above
14. Deleting text x delete under cursor X delete behind cursor d{motion} delete word, sentence, paragraph dd delete line r{char} replace character
15. copy pasting v go into visual selection mode - all other movements work (selecting word/line/paragraph) y yank or copy the selection in buffer yy yank or copy the line in buffer p paste after cursor Ctrl+V (works only in insert mode)
16. vim verbs d{motion} delete on motion c{motion} change on motion
17. motions/text objects a - ambient i - in w - word s - sentence p - paragraph t - tag ‘ - quote “ - double quote
18. In normal mode daw - delete a word dit - delete in tag cit - change in tag
19. Repeating commands . (repeats last command)
20. Recording q{buffer} - start recording in buffer @{buffer} - replay from buffer
21. Advanced features placing marks on the file and jumping quickly splitting windows auto completion command completion and much, much, much more!
22. Configurations ~/.vimrc
23. Further reading material 7 Habits of highly effective text editing 7 Habits of highly effective text editing v2
31. Interesting points • gmail uses vim-style keys for moving around
32. Question and answers