Learning VIM
In this blog post, I'm going to update it as I continue to learn vim. This post will be a reminder of shortcuts and set ups for making it easy to use and learn.
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This year I made it a goal to try to improve my knowledge of using vim. It started to make a bit more sense after watching this Talk on going mouseless with Vim, Tmux, and Hotkeys. The presenter did a good job on walking though the basics.
I created these tables below from the first few slides in his presentation. I use them as reminders on remembering that it’s all about:
Operators + Text Objects + Motions.
Mode | Keystroke
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Esc | Normal Mode
i, a, c | Insert Mode
v, V, <Ctrl-v> | Visual Mode
:, / | Command-line Mode
Keystroke | Action
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c | change
d | delete
y | yank into register
~ | swap case
gu | make lowercase
gU | make uppercase
! | filter to external program
< | shift left
> | shift right
= | indent
Keystroke | Action
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aw | a word
iw | inner word
aW | a WORD
iW | inner WORD
ap | a paragraph
ip | inner paragraph
ab | a bracket
ib | inner bracket
at | a tag block
it | inner tag block
Keystroke | Action
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% | go to first matching paren / bracket
[count]+ | down to first non-blank chat of line
[count]$ | to end of line
[count]f/F{char} | to next occurrence of {char}
[count]t/T{char} | to before next occurrence of {char}
[count]]m | Go to beginning of next method
[count]w/W | go a word / WORD to the right
[count]b/B | go a word / WORD to the left
[count]e/E | go a word / WORD right
Keystroke | Action
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:s/bad/good/g | changes all words bad to good in the current line
:6,11s/bad/good/g | makes the same change, but in lines 6 to 11, including 6 and 11
%s/bad/good/g | makes the same change in entire file
This blog post will continue to get updated as I get familiar with setups and other things with vim.
Note: The Book Matering VIM Quickly has good information. The author breaks down concepts into smaller pieces.
Highly recommend signing up for the emails. The emails sent out are good reminders to keep practicing. The substitute section is from one of the emails.