The best text editor everUSING VIM

• Color syntax highlighting• Very customizable• Highly portable• Highly active community• Plug-ins

• Suuuuuuper fast

WHY USE VIM?

VIM’s effectiveness comes from not using the arrow keys or the mouse

BEFORE WE BEGIN REMEMBER…

Vim has many modes, but the most used ones are:

• Normal mode (aka Command Mode): you can enter all the normal editor commands. If you start the editor you are in this mode.

• Insert mode: the text you type is inserted into the buffer.

• Visual mode: This is like Normal mode, but the movement commands extend a highlighted area. When a non-movement command is used, it is executed for the highlighted area.

THE BASICS

Main mode to make all the movement of the cursor

• h j k l: moves the cursor left down up right respectively• w: jump to the start of the next word• e: jump to the end of the word• b: jump backward by words• 0: start of the line• $: end of the line• ^: first non-blank character of the line• gg: top of the buffer• G: bottom of the buffer• #G: go to line #

Note: Prefix a cursor movement command with a number to repeat i t . For example, 4j moves down 4 l ines.

NORMAL MODE

x: delete character under the cursor r: replace the character under the cursorR: replace everything you type until you press <ESC>cw: change wordc$: change to the end of the linecc: change entire line f: find characterp: paste from buffery: copy selected text . : repeat last commandu: undo

And many more…

MORE NORMAL MODE COMMANDS

i: Enter insert mode at cursor I: Enter insert mode at the start of the linea: Enter insert mode after the cursorA: Enter insert mode at the end of the lineo: open a new line below the cursorO: open a new line above the cursor<ESC>: exit insert mode

INSERT MODE

v: start visual modeV: linewise visual mode<Ctrl> + v: block visual mode i: select the inner stuff of things (i.e. vit, vi{, vi(, etc)<Esc>: exit visual mode

VISUAL MODE

Command-line mode is used to enter Ex commands (":"), search patterns ("/" and "?”)

i.e. saving(:w), quitting (:q), running terminal commands (: !), finding and replacing: (:s)

Searching: /pattern – searches for the pattern in the document ?pattern – searches for the pattern backwards n – looks for the next ocurrence of the search N – looks for the previous ocurrence of the search :%s/old/new/g - replaces all old with new throughout file

OTHER STUFF

pathogen - https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogenrails.vim - https://github.com/tpope/vim-railsNERD-tree - https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtreeNERD-commenter -

https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenterCtrl-P - https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vimSnipmate -

https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vimSurround - https://github.com/tpope/vim-surroundZen-coding - https://github.com/mattn/zencoding-vim

And many more…

SOME PLUGINS

Derek Wyatt’s tutorials - http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/Vimcasts – http://vimcasts.orgUse vim like a Pro - https://leanpub.com/VimLikeAProVIM’s Documentation -

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/ usr_toc.htmlCoderwall’s VIM network - https://coderwall.co m/n/vimCheatsheet -

http://cloud.github.com/downloads/ahrencode/Miscellaneous/vim-cheatsheet.pdf

VIM tutorial - http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html

Vimtweets - http://www.vimtweets.com/ || @vimtipsMy VIM config - https://github.com/rkrdo/vimfiles

RESOURCES

THANK YOU!