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A Vim Tutorial and Primer. [ Check out my latest post on the HP Security Blog: “HP Security and the Internet of Things” ] There are dozens of vim references online, but most of them either go ninja straight away, or start basic and don't go much deeper.

A Vim Tutorial and Primer

The goal of this tutorial is to take you through every stage of progression—from understanding the vim philosophy (which will stay with you forever), to surpassing your skill with your current editor, to becoming “one of those people”. Let's get started. Why Vim I believe people should use vim for the following three reasons: It's ubiquitous. In short, I believe you should consider competence with vim the way you consider competence with your native language, or basic maths, etc. Approach Kana the Wizard says there are five (5) levels to vim mastery: Level 0: not knowing about vimLevel 1: knows vim basicsLevel 2: knows visual modeLevel 3: knows various motionsLevel 4: not needing visual mode I don't know about that, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Configuration d2w. Mastering Vim in Vim - Wedding Party. Vim has a deserved reputation for being difficult to learn.

Mastering Vim in Vim - Wedding Party

The included vimtutor program will teach you the absolute basics, enough to allow you to edit a file, but what if you want to achieve the extreme proficiency you’ve heard vim users are capable of? There are many good articles about learning vim a quick google search away, and vimcasts has some great screencasts, but those resources are not explicitly geared towards helping you achieve mastery through practice. You might learn some interesting tricks, but how do you ensure you will be able to remember them long enough to use them? What you need is a vim study lab! A vim study lab consists of a large set of the textual equivalent of study cards with some vim commands to make navigating the cards easier. Here’s an example of a vim-study-lab-in-a-file. The second part is the queues themselves, Study, and Known. Here you can see it in action. Here is a greatly shortened example of the queues: Check out the discussion on Hacker News.

Mastering Vim in Vim - Wedding Party. Skullwaste - Vimperator. Vim Commands Cheat Sheet - Vimperator. How to Exit Editing a File Inserting Text Inserting a file Deleting Text Changing (or Replacing) Text Substituting The arguments that you can use for the substitute commands: [c] Confirm each substitution.

Vim Commands Cheat Sheet - Vimperator

Copying and Moving Text Undo/Redo/Repeat Moving Around Basic motion commands: k These commands move over words or WORDS. Solarized - Ethan Schoonover. Precision colors for machines and people Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications.

Solarized - Ethan Schoonover

It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions. See the changelog for what’s new in the most recent release. Tutorial: Make Vim as Your C/C++ IDE Using c.vim Plugin - Vimperator. This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks Series.

Tutorial: Make Vim as Your C/C++ IDE Using c.vim Plugin - Vimperator

As a programmer, you may do lot of repetitive tasks while coding such as: Adding file header Adding function/frame comment Including default code snippet Performing syntax check Reading documentation about a function Converting a code block to comment, and vice versa The C-Support Vim Plugin offers easiest way to do all of the above, saving lot of time and keystrokes for C and C++ programmers. The plugin was written by Fritz Mehner, who explains the purpose of the plugin as: “Write and run programs. Insert statements, idioms, comments”. Statement oriented editing of C / C++ programs Speed up writing new code considerably. This article explains how to install the plugin in 3 easy steps and 7 powerful features of the plugin. 3 Steps to Install the C.Vim Plugin Step 1: Download C Vim Plugin Download the plugin from vim.org website. $ cd /usr/src $ wget Step 2: Install the C Vim Plugin Step 3: Enable the plugin in the ~/.vimrc.

C-hotkeys.pdf - Vimperator. Vim Commands Cheat Sheet. Learn Vimscript the Hard Way - Vimperator. Learn Vim Progressively - Vimperator. Tl;dr: You want to teach yourself vim (the best text editor known to human kind) in the fastest way possible.

Learn Vim Progressively - Vimperator

This is my way of doing it. You start by learning the minimal to survive, then you integrate all the tricks slowly. Vim the Six Billion Dollar editor Better, Stronger, Faster. Learn vim and it will be your last text editor. Gmarik/vundle · GitHub - Vimperator. Vim-scripts/c.vim · GitHub - Vimperator. Vimperator. Vimperator labs. Issues - vimperator-labs - Creating efficient user interfaces for existing applications - Google Project Hosting - Vimperator. Open Vim.