Learning Vim

Course details

Vim is the most versatile, configurable, cross-platform text editor around, available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and even legacy operating systems like Amiga. It's built for developers, with powerful commands and productivity-boosting features like dual editing mode and syntax highlighting. This course is designed to help anyone new to Vim become more efficient when editing text files, code and configuration files. Learn how to create new files; search for words and characters; move around files; edit and delete text; store text in registers; jump around files with marks ( bookmarks); and use commands to speed up common tasks. Instructor Miki Tebeka fills the course with examples and demos that show how Vim is used in the real-world, day-to-day workflow of a developer or sysadmin.

Learning objectives
Installing Vim
Creating new files from scratch
Searching for words and phrases in Vim
Moving through screens and lines
Editing and deleting text
Using registers
Defining marks
Editing configuration
Using Vim commands

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Vim for text editing
02 - Why Vim
03 - Vim installation
04 - Sample files and challenges

1. Basics

05 - Start and quit Vim
06 - Dual mode
07 - Insert text
08 - Save and quit
09 - Challenge - Create file
10 - Solution - Create file

2. Moving Around

11 - Navigate using keys - H, J, K, L
12 - Words, sentences, and paragraphs
13 - Challenge - Find word
14 - Solution - Find word
15 - Regular expressions
16 - Challenge - Search word
17 - Solution - Search word
18 - Screen movement
19 - Challenge - Move screens
20 - Solution - Move screens
21 - Lines
22 - Challenge - Move lines
23 - Solution - Move lines
24 - Current word
25 - Challenge - Find next instance of word
26 - Solution - Find next instance of word

3. Changing Text

27 - Delete text
28 - Challenge - Delete sentence
29 - Solution - Delete sentence
30 - Copy and paste
31 - Challenge - Copy and paste
32 - Solution - Copy and paste
33 - Change text
34 - Challenge - Change text
35 - Solution - Change text
36 - Visual selection
37 - Challenge - Use visual selection
38 - Solution - Use visual selection
39 - Registers
40 - Challenge - Use registers
41 - Solution - Use registers
42 - Replace text

4. Marks

43 - Define and jump to marks
44 - Challenge - Define and jump to mark
45 - Solution - Define and jump to mark
46 - Jump through history
47 - Challenge - Jump back
48 - Solution - Jump back
49 - Move to last change
50 - Challenge - Last change
51 - Solution - Last change

5. Buffers

52 - Windows and buffers
53 - Challenge - Buffer
54 - Solution - Buffer
55 - Edit files
56 - Challenge - Edit files
57 - Solution - Edit files
58 - Move between buffers
59 - Challenge - Switch buffer
60 - Solution - Switch buffer
61 - Read command
62 - Challenge - Insert file
63 - Solution - Insert file

6. Configuration

64 - Configuration files
65 - Challenge - Set line numbers
66 - Solution - Set line numbers
67 - Map keys
68 - Challenge - Map key
69 - Solution - Map key
70 - Abbreviations
71 - Challenge - Abbreviate email
72 - Solution - Abbreviate email
73 - Add commands
74 - Challenge - Create command
75 - Solution - Create command
76 - Various settings
77 - Challenge - Edit .vimrc
78 - Solution - Edit .vimrc

6. Day-To-Day Vim

79 - Start Vim with a command
80 - Challenge - Use Vim command
81 - Solution - Use Vim command
82 - Diff mode
83 - Challenge - Diff mode
84 - Solution - Diff mode
85 - Zip files
86 - Challenge - Zip file
87 - Solution - Zip file
88 - Open files from name
89 - Challenge - Open file to line number
90 - Solution - Open file to line number
91 - External commands
92 - Challenge - External command
93 - Solution - External command

Conclusion

94 - Next steps