Thanks for the amazing video here are some of my notes! 1:00 vim has a mythology of being impossibly hard. 2:30 Stay out of insert mode. 3:30 Disable arrows, to work on getting used to hjkl movement. 4:20 As you get more advanced let go of hjkl 5:00 learn advance shortcuts w instead of l (moving through words) b (back) e (ends of words) ge (back end of words) f (find) 5:50 advanced functions to delete chunks of phrases "t" "ct" 7:12 delete find df (delete til it find a specific symbol you are looking for) 8:40 relative numbers (example -16,-1co.) this copy pastes a chunk above the line where you are (or below) 9:20 H M L (migh medium low)
After playing around for a few days with 'vimtutor' and 'vim adventures', Im starting to think i've wasted the last 20 years with 'joe editor'. Replacing my IDE with vim/tmux is now my new years resolution.
@@jandrews377 Tips for the IDE idea, new versions of Vim and NeoVim support a terminal buffer, there's the asyncrun plugin: commandsgithub.com/skywind3000/asyncrun.vim for running commands in the quickfix window allowing you to quickly compile code without living your comfy vim. and the best plugin for syntax checking I have found so far is vim-ale. For code completion there are way to many options so pick your own poison. Hope it helps you
Yea it kind of is bs. I only actually use vim on the server but I have vim extensions for all my editors/IDEs. I'll say that using the extensions isn't the same (although the Intellij one is incredible), but they're enough to make editors like Atom much more productive. But I also code a lot of Java and I'm too lazy to set vim up for that. The interesting thing here I think is that you could actually make that argument about emacs, although I think it has more of a learning curve
I just started using vim, added vimium to my browser too. This video has some really practical advice on the issues beginners like me face, thank you for putting this out.
if you add "set path+=**" to your vimrc, vim's own :find command becomes a pretty decent substitute for a fuzzy finder, provided your working directory is always set to a project root
If you have folders like node_modules and/or composer's vendor, this absolutely murders performance. Just use a plugin that does the same but uses gitignore to build paths
My favorite motion is `}` that moves me to the end of a paragraph. I realised that I tend to try to program blocks by paragraphs just to move arround by `feature`.
I moved away from Vim, about a year ago complaining that it was too time-consuming. But the truth is I did not have the right exposure to get efficient. I am switching back to Vim right away. Great video!
Easy motion: the best vim plugin ever made. It gets you from any character in the screen to any other character with 3 to 5 key presses. Once you get used to it navigating in a Vim without easy motion is a pain xD
I'm glad you called out the needless gatekeeping around vim. I don't need my ego stroked, I need vim seen as a rational option so no one minds me using it and being happy. I'm sick of being told to move to an IDE!
I learned the bare minimum of Vi simply because it ships with everything and I know it will always be available. I thought I was decent just being able to get around, but this stuff is on an entirely different level. These guys are like Vim gurus.
LOL, I launched vimtutor after you mentioned it and started doing the tutorial while listening to this in the background. It started with the j/k keys to navigate...I said "nah, I'll just use the arrow keys", and of course that was at minute 3:31 when you scolded me for doing so - brilliantly timed! 🤣
I got the stupid idea in my head to learn vim, and I got super frustrated. That lead me to this video, and now that I'm practicing and setting custom shortcuts with the leader commands I'm finally starting to catch on and that's super cool. Frustration is a good teacher, although an annoying one. Might look into vim hard mode once I get a bit more used to hjkl navigation (I remapped my arrow keys to tab navigation, and that's a good punishment whenever my reflexes bring me back there). Great vid!
One important thing I can remember about vimtutor is that you really should make a list of those commands to remind yourself of all those possibilities so that you don’t have to search them all the time.
one more cool thing about the motion actions (eg 'dt{') is that this is an atomic operation that has a single undo step. pressing and holding 'x' for 15+ seconds will generate a bunch of undo operations for every single character. `dt{` is just a single undo. repeating this later has the same effect, so it's much easier to navigate my own changes (especially if i need to undo anything) - navigating, say, 3 undo steps is much more convenient than navigating 300...
Add both "set number" and "set relativenumber" in your .vimrc file to always see which line you're currently on and have the relative numbers to jump to.
I do this and it's great. You can make jumps to precise locations on screen while still seeing the line number. I feel like relative line number is more useful than the actual line number but it's trivial to just turn on both when you need it.
The example given for relative line numbers is an anti-pattern. Rather than "d7j" you should have used "d}."/ "dap" or "2d}"/"2dap". Ironically you had just finished explaining why it's better to operate at a semantic level, or at a highest level of granularity available, then you did an operation using line numbers (non-semantic, not repeatable) which could have been done semantically (operating on paragraphs).
+ReductioAdAbsurdum In this context I'd disagree since he was using the command to demonstrate relative numbers. The context makes the commands you suggest nonsensical. But I agree that using the most superordinate word objects possible is good practice.
No way as fast editing in just two weeks as a regular editor like Intelij.. takes months to build the muscle memory to gain the real speed advantages... plus to configure and plug in the holes that vim falls short on.. having said that its really satisfying and well worth the effort... I'm loving it, it's my primary editor now!
You should try out the vim extension for Intellij. It takes a little configuration because you'll have to turn off the default shortcuts that conflict (Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, etc) but it's pretty easy to do and then you get the greatness that is Intellij combined with the agility of vim commands
@@LusidDreaming Yeah it is good. I've used vim plugins for Visual Studio Code and intellij..When you're in a locked down network, and only have access to certain tools this is a good way to go. I like plain old Vim as you can configure it to be your own IDE.. Intellij is very good but it does have a tendency to slow down in my experience and hog memory.. Vim when is configured well it can do pretty much everything that intellij can do.. Although I haven't managed to replicate local history yet...
If you write "set number" and then "set relative number" in your .vimrc file, then the 0 number will be the line number. Much more practical in my opinion, otherwise you would have trouble knowing how many lines are in a file.
found the :copy command while he was teaching and did a little more research and found that :t will do the same thing its an amazing command for copy whole methods or functions am glad I watched this again.
wow, have been using surround for a while but didn't realize it gives you the option to surround with and without spaces. feeling stupid for not having checked that earlier.
Vim actually supports fuzzyfinder by itself. You don't need a plugin for it. Changes to .vimrc set path=+** set wildmenu Usage :find *.tex Congrats you achieved fuzzy search without a plugin.
Do you feel we should just disable "Key repeat" all the time, or turn it back on in the future? I know for Vim it makes sense, and even on other programs where one wants to delete words we can just use "Ctrl+backspace". But I don't know if it's a good idea for other programs, specially if one uses Adobe CC. What do you think?
BlastOffLab I not only turn it back on, I crank it to ridiculous levels (beyond the max allows by default OS utilities: google it for your OS), then use it when it's faster or less intrusive to my mental workflow than counting/scanning and crafting semantic commands.
Well, not to pick a fight here ;) but if I type a w instead of a q, isn't it quicker and easier to hit the backspace key with my right pinky rather than leaving insert mode to hit x then i to get back. Surely hitting a single backspace without leaving the mode is best?
yeah arrow keys are great to disable , if you are lame enough to stick with qwerty , but you need to remap them in a clever way as to not kill other nice motion commands if you are on dvorak or colemak.. just sayng. I am currently using the HHKB2 keyboard and I regret not having remapped hjkl when I started using colemak because the arrow keys are only available while holdin the function key.
Someone needs to make a relative lines plugin for sublime text. I'm using vim keymappings and loving it, but not having relative lines makes me feel like I'm missing out (And before anyone mentions VintageLines, it doesn't work for me and seems to be kind of a hacky implementation)
ajay poshak so multiple cursors look cool, but I’m not sure they’re super efficient. When I watch UA-cam demos with multiple cursors, what I usually want to do is search, change, next, repeat: 1. Search for the current word (e.g. function name) with asterisk (*), make sure “hlsearch” is active for visual feedback. If you want the cursor at the end of the match, hit /, up arrow, add /e to the end of your search expression. 2. Make a single edit; usually change inner word (c i w), insert, or append. 3. Use n (next) and Ctrl-o to move between matches 4. Repeat edit with dot (.) - do steps 3 and 4 until done. If you’re doing a large number of change inner word (c i w), that’s an anti-pattern, and you’d save time by using ex commands: :%s//new_function_name/g Those two strategies do what I’ve seen multiple cursors do, but in a vim way.
This video and many other vim related videos of thoughtbot have been sitting in my watch later playlist over many years. Now that I am here....... I am just write to make this comment and hopefully watch the video some other day. Wish me luck. Edit: Finally watched it!!! Yay!!
@@zorbat5 Yes, I have. Finally. I got the recommendation to watch this from reddit. So, this time I watched it. I wouldn’t say I could get started with hard mode yet, I am still heavily relied on hjkl. But I sure will try to disable my arrow key, and start being in normal mode more.
gv will repeat the last visual selection. so select some stuff visually and then run find and replace on a large chunk of code. Just learned that one today. :s/oldCSSClass/newCSSClass/g
8:05 wouldn't you rather use d2} instead of bothering trying to look at the line and figure out how many lines you need to delete? You know you want to clear two "paragraphs" worth of info and d2} comes intuitively from that thought, whereas 7dd requires stopping and then looking at your relative line numbers.
"it's not that hard, it's not that scary". It's different from normal stuff, which means it automatically and definitely is hard and scary for almost everyone.
You know what rustles my jimmies? I use latam...my home row is asdf jklñ and god knows I've been trying to find how the hell to configure jklñ to the movement keys but can't find SHIT about how to do that. I use vimium in my broswer, I set my command line to vi mode and after using vim for a while I just don't understand why the hell it's not supported EVERYWHERE because it's just so awsome...but I need to change the movement keys...
vim is nice but i recommend you download webstorm or another jetbrains ide that supports javascript if you're a beginner, because it will explain/fix many common errors for you. imo sublime and atom are garbage in comparison to either.
Ctrl-f used to be one screen forward, some genius changed it to search. Why do you do that when / already does search? It's like amateur Windows user's feature.
Stop using Relative Line Numbers! For that example, instead consider the following command: dap. ^^ deletes the current paragraph (and spaces), then repeats the action for the next block.
+Epsio0 hahaha, that was a funny point. Anyway, what he meant was that typing "i" in order to get in insert mode should be highly avoid, normal mode gives you the power of navigation and deletion without accessing insert mode. Also, Normal mode will give you access to insert mode at the right time and at the right location if you use it well. And as he also mentioned, once you are in insert mode, do what you need to do, and then you get out of there.
Thanks for the amazing video here are some of my notes!
1:00 vim has a mythology of being impossibly hard.
2:30 Stay out of insert mode.
3:30 Disable arrows, to work on getting used to hjkl movement.
4:20 As you get more advanced let go of hjkl
5:00 learn advance shortcuts w instead of l (moving through words)
b (back)
e (ends of words)
ge (back end of words)
f (find)
5:50 advanced functions to delete chunks of phrases "t" "ct"
7:12 delete find df (delete til it find a specific symbol you are
looking for)
8:40 relative numbers (example -16,-1co.) this copy pastes a chunk above
the line where you are (or below)
9:20 H M L (migh medium low)
'-16,-1co.' co means 'copy command' in vim, '.' dot means here also current line. so the whole command is : copy -16,-1 lines to current line.
Vim is terrifying. Terrifying knowing that there was a time I didn't use it.
I still don't understand how I got by without vim
After playing around for a few days with 'vimtutor' and 'vim adventures', Im starting to think i've wasted the last 20 years with 'joe editor'. Replacing my IDE with vim/tmux is now my new years resolution.
@@jandrews377 Tips for the IDE idea, new versions of Vim and NeoVim support a terminal buffer, there's the asyncrun plugin: commandsgithub.com/skywind3000/asyncrun.vim for running commands in the quickfix window allowing you to quickly compile code without living your comfy vim. and the best plugin for syntax checking I have found so far is vim-ale. For code completion there are way to many options so pick your own poison. Hope it helps you
@@VictorRodriguez-zp2do Thank you Victor, great advise, ill check both of them out.
I even use vim to reply to you
“Your old editor is already eclipsed" 😂That was awesome.
It's also bs...
Yea it kind of is bs. I only actually use vim on the server but I have vim extensions for all my editors/IDEs. I'll say that using the extensions isn't the same (although the Intellij one is incredible), but they're enough to make editors like Atom much more productive. But I also code a lot of Java and I'm too lazy to set vim up for that. The interesting thing here I think is that you could actually make that argument about emacs, although I think it has more of a learning curve
@@LusidDreaming vim has quite a few advanced stuff that only vim can do.
@@devikapluspoint8306 like what?
tips start at 2:34
when he said "most editors don't really do anything ... most people just spend time making it look pretty"
very true
You got to remember for most big IDEs they also spend time making them laggy... while still not doing anything
Thanks for sharing your tips. I found this really useful.
vim-surround: s (
whoever decide to install hard mode prepare for a lot of a frustration.
I just started using vim, added vimium to my browser too. This video has some really practical advice on the issues beginners like me face, thank you for putting this out.
I am learning a lot from your channel. Keep up the good work and thanks a lot!
if you add "set path+=**" to your vimrc, vim's own :find command becomes a pretty decent substitute for a fuzzy finder, provided your working directory is always set to a project root
Mephistolomaniac I was about to comment this.
yeah! and the way to begin using fuzzy-find is :find
Please don't.
If you have folders like node_modules and/or composer's vendor, this absolutely murders performance. Just use a plugin that does the same but uses gitignore to build paths
I was not aware of relative line numbers setting. It's super useful, thank you!
I've been using Vim for almost a decade and I'd never heard of that one!
Love this video. I always come back to it.
My favorite motion is `}` that moves me to the end of a paragraph.
I realised that I tend to try to program blocks by paragraphs just to move arround by `feature`.
This is what I use too but it's a little annoying when visually selecting text.
Saw it as a beginner months ago, coming in as in intermediate again. A happy journey so far.
Watching this in 2022. Still makes so much sense.
Thank you folks!♥
This is the 10th time watching to learn more and more from this material. Such a great video....
I moved away from Vim, about a year ago complaining that it was too time-consuming. But the truth is I did not have the right exposure to get efficient. I am switching back to Vim right away. Great video!
Kaushik Kulkarni After 4 months what going on with vim for you??
After 2 years what going on with vim for you??
After 3 years what’s going on with vim for you?
after 4 years what's going on with vim for you?
after 5 years what's going on with vim for you?
I'm new to vim and never understood why people would use relative line numbers ..... now I do ;) THX!
Great tips Man those plugins sure look neat don't know why i haven't found those before!
This was fabulous! Thank you for sharing!
Easy motion: the best vim plugin ever made. It gets you from any character in the screen to any other character with 3 to 5 key presses. Once you get used to it navigating in a Vim without easy motion is a pain xD
I'm glad you called out the needless gatekeeping around vim.
I don't need my ego stroked, I need vim seen as a rational option so no one minds me using it and being happy.
I'm sick of being told to move to an IDE!
It was a very useful lecture. It should be used frequently, but it seems to be good for the beginner to give us some unfamiliar details. Thank.
I learned the bare minimum of Vi simply because it ships with everything and I know it will always be available. I thought I was decent just being able to get around, but this stuff is on an entirely different level. These guys are like Vim gurus.
LOL, I launched vimtutor after you mentioned it and started doing the tutorial while listening to this in the background. It started with the j/k keys to navigate...I said "nah, I'll just use the arrow keys", and of course that was at minute 3:31 when you scolded me for doing so - brilliantly timed! 🤣
yep, it took me a just 2 days to get reasonably good at it, i avoided it for soo long thinking it was hard
I got the stupid idea in my head to learn vim, and I got super frustrated. That lead me to this video, and now that I'm practicing and setting custom shortcuts with the leader commands I'm finally starting to catch on and that's super cool. Frustration is a good teacher, although an annoying one. Might look into vim hard mode once I get a bit more used to hjkl navigation (I remapped my arrow keys to tab navigation, and that's a good punishment whenever my reflexes bring me back there). Great vid!
love this. Thanks you two!!!
One important thing I can remember about vimtutor is that you really should make a list of those commands to remind yourself of all those possibilities so that you don’t have to search them all the time.
Great vid guys! very useful. I feel so dumb not knowing H M L. I do some anti-patterns still occasionally, great tips for getting rid of them.
And don't forget their cousins, zt, zz, and zb which move the focus of the current line to the top, middle and bottom respectively.
My first plugin? Vundle. Might be logical, but it makes plugins so much easier to install and maintain.
Really useful. Thank you!
lol damn these guys just made me know i am inefficient in my vim usage
Thanks guys
one more cool thing about the motion actions (eg 'dt{') is that this is an atomic operation that has a single undo step.
pressing and holding 'x' for 15+ seconds will generate a bunch of undo operations for every single character. `dt{` is just a single undo. repeating this later has the same effect, so it's much easier to navigate my own changes (especially if i need to undo anything) - navigating, say, 3 undo steps is much more convenient than navigating 300...
Vim 8 have arrived! 😄
Thanks for sharing this very clear and informative video.
Add both "set number" and "set relativenumber" in your .vimrc file to always see which line you're currently on and have the relative numbers to jump to.
I do this and it's great. You can make jumps to precise locations on screen while still seeing the line number. I feel like relative line number is more useful than the actual line number but it's trivial to just turn on both when you need it.
I remember spending 2 days trying to customise the look and feel
The example given for relative line numbers is an anti-pattern. Rather than "d7j" you should have used "d}."/ "dap" or "2d}"/"2dap". Ironically you had just finished explaining why it's better to operate at a semantic level, or at a highest level of granularity available, then you did an operation using line numbers (non-semantic, not repeatable) which could have been done semantically (operating on paragraphs).
ReductioAdAbsurdum d2ap
***** Even better.
+ReductioAdAbsurdum In this context I'd disagree since he was using the command to demonstrate relative numbers. The context makes the commands you suggest nonsensical. But I agree that using the most superordinate word objects possible is good practice.
@@Joschasa what does the ap stand for?
@@madsteeez ap is "a paragraph", see vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/motion.html#ap
No way as fast editing in just two weeks as a regular editor like Intelij.. takes months to build the muscle memory to gain the real speed advantages... plus to configure and plug in the holes that vim falls short on.. having said that its really satisfying and well worth the effort... I'm loving it, it's my primary editor now!
You should try out the vim extension for Intellij. It takes a little configuration because you'll have to turn off the default shortcuts that conflict (Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, etc) but it's pretty easy to do and then you get the greatness that is Intellij combined with the agility of vim commands
@@LusidDreaming Yeah it is good. I've used vim plugins for Visual Studio Code and intellij..When you're in a locked down network, and only have access to certain tools this is a good way to go. I like plain old Vim as you can configure it to be your own IDE.. Intellij is very good but it does have a tendency to slow down in my experience and hog memory.. Vim when is configured well it can do pretty much everything that intellij can do.. Although I haven't managed to replicate local history yet...
If you write "set number" and then "set relative number" in your .vimrc file, then the 0 number will be the line number. Much more practical in my opinion, otherwise you would have trouble knowing how many lines are in a file.
Thanks! was looking for this.
I went to add in relative numbers in atom, and found out they automatically do it this way!
You can directly go `set relativenumber` without `set number`. When in command mode, just go `:set rel`
*don't type the apostrophe...
Vim, if u you're absolutely beginner
This book "vim from wtf to omg" will be useful for you
Biggest nerd ever.
Love it.
found the :copy command while he was teaching and did a little more research and found that :t will do the same thing its an amazing command for copy whole methods or functions am glad I watched this again.
wow, have been using surround for a while but didn't realize it gives you the option to surround with and without spaces. feeling stupid for not having checked that earlier.
2:30 He reminds me to Russell Crowe in 'A Beautiful Mind'
Vim actually supports fuzzyfinder by itself. You don't need a plugin for it.
Changes to .vimrc
set path=+**
set wildmenu
Usage
:find *.tex
Congrats you achieved fuzzy search without a plugin.
A topic fully missing is tags, which are one of the best way to move in any programming language.
Do you feel we should just disable "Key repeat" all the time, or turn it back on in the future? I know for Vim it makes sense, and even on other programs where one wants to delete words we can just use "Ctrl+backspace". But I don't know if it's a good idea for other programs, specially if one uses Adobe CC. What do you think?
BlastOffLab I not only turn it back on, I crank it to ridiculous levels (beyond the max allows by default OS utilities: google it for your OS), then use it when it's faster or less intrusive to my mental workflow than counting/scanning and crafting semantic commands.
excellent video! Any ideas on how to enable line 0 to follow the cursor?
:set number relative
Probably one of the best intro to Vim tutorials on youtube.
Thanks!
Hi Ben! What's your opinion about the easymotion plugin? I'm totally in love with the vim-sneak like movement , `s`... I use it for 99% of my motions!
Well, not to pick a fight here ;) but if I type a w instead of a q, isn't it quicker and easier to hit the backspace key with my right pinky rather than leaving insert mode to hit x then i to get back. Surely hitting a single backspace without leaving the mode is best?
6:48 direct reference to the movie, "Office Space"
Interesting - ... got a lot to learn still. I actually spend most time in Insert-mode, cause it's a natural thing to do - at first
great advice for newbie!
yeah arrow keys are great to disable , if you are lame enough to stick with qwerty , but you need to remap them in a clever way as to not kill other nice motion commands if you are on dvorak or colemak.. just sayng. I am currently using the HHKB2 keyboard and I regret not having remapped hjkl when I started using colemak because the arrow keys are only available while holdin the function key.
if someone asks you to give an example of gem, you should share the link of this video
that haircut tho
both of them have a funny haircuts
Honestly it's so strange that it actually looks kinda great
I might actually try the plug in, thanks homies
speed with vim is exponential when given time. I can say from experience
I converted my hjkl to jikl and using 'h' for insert mode. It makes more sense to me. Sometimes I carry my own .vimrc
how did u code this into vimrc?
learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/03.html
map h
map i
map j
map k
Thanks for the Vim tips, Elliot Coleman from Good Tiger!
Great band! I miss Safety Fire, but Good Tiger has helped heal that wound
where can I get this colorscheme?
Someone needs to make a relative lines plugin for sublime text. I'm using vim keymappings and loving it, but not having relative lines makes me feel like I'm missing out (And before anyone mentions VintageLines, it doesn't work for me and seems to be kind of a hacky implementation)
Can vim auto create a method I just used that hasn't been implemented yet?
Never knew Bruce Springsteen taught Vim.
swap out your keyboard for a customized steno machine and go warp speed.
What do you suggest for multiple cursors in vim ?
ajay poshak so multiple cursors look cool, but I’m not sure they’re super efficient. When I watch UA-cam demos with multiple cursors, what I usually want to do is search, change, next, repeat:
1. Search for the current word (e.g. function name) with asterisk (*), make sure “hlsearch” is active for visual feedback.
If you want the cursor at the end of the match, hit /, up arrow, add /e to the end of your search expression.
2. Make a single edit; usually change inner word (c i w), insert, or append.
3. Use n (next) and Ctrl-o to move between matches
4. Repeat edit with dot (.) - do steps 3 and 4 until done.
If you’re doing a large number of change inner word (c i w), that’s an anti-pattern, and you’d save time by using ex commands:
:%s//new_function_name/g
Those two strategies do what I’ve seen multiple cursors do, but in a vim way.
This video and many other vim related videos of thoughtbot have been sitting in my watch later playlist over many years. Now that I am here....... I am just write to make this comment and hopefully watch the video some other day. Wish me luck.
Edit: Finally watched it!!! Yay!!
Watched it yet?
@@zorbat5 Yes, I have. Finally. I got the recommendation to watch this from reddit. So, this time I watched it.
I wouldn’t say I could get started with hard mode yet, I am still heavily relied on hjkl. But I sure will try to disable my arrow key, and start being in normal mode more.
"Ugh 2 inches? Why do I have to do that when I can do 1 inch"
I used to be hardcore sublime fans, but when I test the sublime vintage mode, now VIM4life!
gv will repeat the last visual selection. so select some stuff visually and then run find and replace on a large chunk of code. Just learned that one today.
:s/oldCSSClass/newCSSClass/g
Vim is hard if coding is not your day job and you do it only occasionally. If you code a lot, it’s much easier.
To be fair, humans are not ready for vim.
8:05 wouldn't you rather use d2} instead of bothering trying to look at the line and figure out how many lines you need to delete? You know you want to clear two "paragraphs" worth of info and d2} comes intuitively from that thought, whereas 7dd requires stopping and then looking at your relative line numbers.
"it's not that hard, it's not that scary". It's different from normal stuff, which means it automatically and definitely is hard and scary for almost everyone.
You know what rustles my jimmies? I use latam...my home row is asdf jklñ and god knows I've been trying to find how the hell to configure jklñ to the movement keys but can't find SHIT about how to do that.
I use vimium in my broswer, I set my command line to vi mode and after using vim for a while I just don't understand why the hell it's not supported EVERYWHERE because it's just so awsome...but I need to change the movement keys...
the guy on the left looks like Benedict Cumberbatch ) Thank you
Shift H M L is live saving!
oh really, tell me how did it save your life?
Coding becomes a lot more comfortable if you get used to using Vim!
You feel like, "why didn't I do this before?"
Oh, nice. But how to set current working line is always 0st Line?
:set nonumber (I think?)
@Duy Hung Nguyen - :set relativenumber
disabling key-repeat is probably the one advice I disagree most with. I use xset r rate 290 52
whats the plugin to keep the cursor at 0?
It's built into vim already, just use :set rnu
This guy on the left looks like shroud.
Love HD video
How to copy text from VIM to system clipboard on Linux? Thank you
try crtl + shift + c to copy from vim
Copy to the * and + registers with, e.g., "*yy or "+yy. I don't remember which one it is right now...
i don't think that "ctrl-p" is needed. The builtin fuzzy file finder is pretty good
Whoa, just checked the fuzzy file finder out. That is incredibly cool
@@JohnDoe-qz9ji Just googling "vim fuzzy finder" yielded this
gist.github.com/csswizardry/9a33342dace4786a9fee35c73fa5deeb
But how do I exit vim
Ted Mosby, is that you?
I'm learning JS while learning VIM is this good? First programming language ever BTW I'm a total beginner
vim is nice but i recommend you download webstorm or another jetbrains ide that supports javascript if you're a beginner, because it will explain/fix many common errors for you. imo sublime and atom are garbage in comparison to either.
Ctrl-f used to be one screen forward, some genius changed it to search. Why do you do that when / already does search? It's like amateur Windows user's feature.
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I expected video to address the Vim slowness issue
Stop using Relative Line Numbers! For that example, instead consider the following command: dap.
^^ deletes the current paragraph (and spaces), then repeats the action for the next block.
how am I suppose to write code if I should avoid insert mode?
+Epsio0 hahaha, that was a funny point. Anyway, what he meant was that typing "i" in order to get in insert mode should be highly avoid, normal mode gives you the power of navigation and deletion without accessing insert mode. Also, Normal mode will give you access to insert mode at the right time and at the right location if you use it well. And as he also mentioned, once you are in insert mode, do what you need to do, and then you get out of there.
Epsio0 don't lie.. you copy and paste from stackoverflow anyways lol..
what is this?
you need to mention gg, G, ], [, {, } for moving around.
He looks like Sherlock holmes
It's not 15-20 minutes