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Vim Editor

VimTutorials

Resources for learning Vim.

Some of these resources may prove to be more useful to you than this document. Exercises provided below are constructed in such a way each build on each other. Consider this resource as a supplement to the links given below. Before doing that start 'vimtutor'

Vimesque file managers

Vimesque web browsers

Recommended Peripherals

Exercises

Do the excercises below in the following order:

Getting Started

Curl

Instance:

  'curl -o VimTutorials.gz https://github.com/esch3r/VimTutorials'

Git

Another way to yank these files to view them in console is with the git clone command.

'$ git clone https://github.com/esch3r/VimTutorials'

.vimrc Config

Its common to place the .vimrc configuration file '/etc/vim/vimrc/' or '/etc/vimrc/' another alternative which works well if the default .vimrc is read-only is to place it in your home directory '~'.

1. Basic Configuration

Upload git respository for pathogen into the following file path: '~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim' Or copy and paste the following into your terminal/shell 'mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && ' 'curl -LSso /.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim' For each plugin upload them inside bundle folder '/.vim/bundle/'

Lesson 1. Entering/Exiting Vim

  1. Open a file with Vim FirstLesson.txt
  2. Once in vim hit i to enter insert mode. Write some random sentences for practice later. When finished hit the esc key.
  3. Repeat this text selection, as many times as the task requires:
    • Using the arrow keys move the cursor about the screen.
    • Enter visual mode by pressing v
    • Highlight text using the cursor in visual mode using the arrow keys.
    • Press y to yank or otherwise known as copy the selected text.
    • Move using arrow keys again to intended location in the text to paste
    • Press p to paste selected text in question.
  4. Upon exiting and saving your progress preform following keystokes listed below in the table to write or discard file edits:
Keystroke Function
:w or w file save changes to buffer or safe file to new file
ZZ or :wq Save changes and quit
:q! quit without saving

Lesson 2. Modes within vim

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Insert:

  • Modify the file inserting new text.

Visual:

  • Visually select text by moving cursor over it, then operate over the text thats selected.
  • Visual mode has many different subtypes: visual, block visual, and linewise visual.

Normal:

  • Default mode
  • Allows quick mauevers through the text.
  • Switching between other modes.

Select:

Command:

Lesson 3. Navigating text

Keystroke Function
h Move cursor left
l/spacebar Move cursor right
k/Ctrl+p Move cursor up
J/Ctrl+n Move cursor down
w Move cursor up
b Move cursor down
e Move cursor up
W Move cursor down
B Move to beginning of previous word before whitespace
E Move to end of word before a whitespace
0 Move to the beginning of the line
$ move to the end of the line

Lesson 4. Window Pains

Keystroke Function
hsp Horizontally split window
vsp vertically split window
Shift+W Traverse between windows

Lesson 5. Searching

keystroke Function
/PaTTeRn Search forward for PaTTeRn
?PaTTeRn Search backward for PaTTeRn
n Repeat foward search
N Repeat backward search