Learn and master the Vim text editor

Name: Learn and master the Vim text editor
Rating: 4.6 (34 reviews)

Learn Vim from scratch, become more productive, turn Vim into a complete IDE

Created byAdriano Gattabuia

Last updated 7/2018

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

You'll be able to work much more efficiently thanks to the many Vim features
You'll be able to transform Vim into a full-fledged IDE

Course content

6 sections • 12 lectures • 1h 41m total length

Introduction4:00
Discover how vim boosts productivity by learning movement, text insertion, and basic operations, then dive into buffers, registers, tabs, and windows with split panes, using regular expressions to transform text.

Installing Vim on Windows, Linux and Mac11:16
Install vim on Windows, linux mint in a virtual box and prepare the system with vi improved and basic navigation commands to start using vim.
Navigation in normal mode8:16
Master Vim navigation in normal mode using hjkl for movement, page and line jumps, and word navigation, then switch to visual and insertion modes to edit, copy, and paste text.
Basic text editing, insert and visual-block mode7:52
Master vim basics by exploring insert mode, visual-block mode, and common editing commands to delete, copy, paste, and replace text with speed and precision.

Command-line mode9:32
Master Vim command-line mode to edit and search files with help, visual mode, and colon commands. Learn to customize with set options, syntax highlighting, line numbers, and buffers.
Finding and replacing text, regular expressios16:59
Master Vim search and replace with character motions, slash searches, and regular expressions; apply substitutions across ranges or the entire document, using global, visual, and backreference techniques.
Macros4:19
Learn how to create and reuse Vim macros by recording key sequences into registers, replaying them, and combining with the expression register to automate repetitive edits.

Installing and managing Vim plugins with Vundle7:41
Learn to install and manage vim plugins with vundle, set color schemes, and enable NerdTree for file navigation. Explore language-specific plugins for auto closing tags and text editing enhancements.
Code autocompletion, folding, mapping, sessions10:07
Master Vim autocompletion, code folding, and mappings, and manage sessions to persist layouts, while loading dictionaries and exploring syntax completion for programming.

Requirements

A Windows, Mac or Linux operating system
Basic knowledge of the Linux command line

Description

In this course I'll teach you to use Vim, one of the most powerful text editors out there. Vi and Vim come installed by default on most Linux distributions.

Vim makes you faster and more productive - you never have to move your hands away from the keyboard as all Vim commands can be issued from the keyboard alone. Vim has also more than 26 registers to save text to, as opposed to only one clipboard of your operating system.

The course will guide you starting from the very basics of how to move in a document, we'll learn how to edit files efficiently, how to use macros, regular expressions, how to work with multiple tabs and split windows in panes. We'll also learn how to install Vim plugins to change its appearance and behavior.

By the end of the course you'll know how to use Vim and how to turn it into a full-fledged IDE.

Who this course is for:

Anyone that wants to improve their development or writing speed
Anyone who wants to learn Vim fast

Learn and master the Vim text editor

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 4min

Basic Vim usage3 lectures • 27min

Vim basic features: command-line mode, search and replace, macros3 lectures • 31min

Workflow enhancement: panes, tabs, registers, marks2 lectures • 18min

Plugins and customization2 lectures • 18min

Course end1 lecture • 3min

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