Roy Osherove shows vim for newbies, and explains why everyone should know at least a little vim.

1. VIM
@RoyOsherove
http://key.bo/apps/16-vim
7enn.com

2. Why VIM?
• Lightweight
• Everywhere
• Remote coding via ssh
• Pair programming (ssh + tmux)
• Important skill (like regex)
• Feel Stupid, Learn Something

3. Learning

4. versions
• 7.3+
• Vi (vim)
• Gui-vim (macvim, gvim on windowslinux)

5. Configuration
• .vim file
• .vim directory
• Vim scripts and plugins
• Google “vim Janus”
• Github astrails dotvim

6. http://tuxradar.com/content/vim-master-basics

7. http://amalloy.hubpages.com/hub/Why-old-text-editors-are-still-great

8. http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html

9. http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif

10. Favorite Plugins
• Surround plugin
• Rails
• Nerdtree
• Command-t (fuzzy finding)

11. Favorite keys
• Cw and ciw
• S)
• Shift-v to line selection
• Cc to change line
• Dd to delete line

12. Practice cw
• Load up piece of text
• Use / to find instance of ‘the’
• Use ‘cw’ to change ‘the’ to ‘your’
• Use ‘esc’ and then ‘n’ to move to next find
• Use ‘.’ to repeat
• Use ‘n’ and ‘.’ to repeat as many times as
possible

13. Practice ciw
• Load up piece of text
• Use / to find instance of ‘he’
• Use ‘ciw’ to change ‘the’ to ‘your’
• Use ‘esc’ and then ‘n’ to move to next find
• Use ‘.’ to repeat
• Use ‘n’ and ‘.’ to repeat as many times as
possible

14. Practice o and O
• Load up piece of text
• Use j to go to 2nd line
• For each line use shift O to enter a line above
and o to insert a line below
• Use . To repeat actions

15. Other vims
• vsVim for visual studio
• ViEmu for Word
• Vimium and vimperator for firefox and chrome
• Vi-like command line in zsh (configure
yourself)