1. USING VIM The best text
editor ever

2. WHY USE VIM?
• Color syntax highlighting
• Very customizable
• Highly portable
• Highly active community
• Plug-ins
• Suuuuuuper fast

3. BEFORE WE BEGIN REMEMBER…
VIM’s effectiveness comes from not using the
arrow keys or the mouse

4. THE BASICS
 Vim has many modes, but the most used ones are:
• Normal mode (aka Command Mode): you can enter all the
normal editor commands. If you star t the editor you are in
this mode.
• Inser t mode: the text you type is inser ted into the buf fer.
• Visual mode: This is like Normal mode, but the movement
commands extend a highlighted area. When a non-
movement command is used, it is executed for the
highlighted area.

5. NORMAL MODE
Main mode to make all the movement of the cursor
• h j k l: moves the cursor left down up right respectively
• w: jump to the start of the next word
• e: jump to the end of the word
• b: jump backward by words
• 0: start of the line
• $: end of the line
• ^: first non-blank character of the line
• gg: top of the buf fer
• G: bottom of the buf fer
• #G: go to line #
N o te : P r e f i x a c u r s o r m o v e m e n t c o m m a n d w i t h a n u m b e r to r e p e a t i t . Fo r ex a m p l e , 4 j
moves down 4 lines.

6. MORE NORMAL MODE COMMANDS
 x: delete character under the cursor
 r: replace the character under the cursor
 R: replace everything you type until you press <ESC>
 cw: change word
 c$: change to the end of the line
 cc: change entire line
 f: find character
 p: paste from buf fer
 y: copy selected text
 . : repeat last command
 u: undo
And many more…

7. INSERT MODE
 i: Enter insert mode at cursor
 I: Enter insert mode at the start of the line
 a: Enter insert mode after the cursor
 A: Enter insert mode at the end of the line
 o: open a new line below the cursor
 O: open a new line above the cursor
 <ESC>: exit insert mode

8. VISUAL MODE
 v: start visual mode
 V: linewise visual mode
 <Ctrl> + v: block visual mode
 i: select the inner stuf f of things (i.e. vit, vi{, vi(, etc)
 <Esc>: exit visual mode

9. OTHER STUFF
 Command-line mode is used to enter Ex commands
(":"), search patterns ("/" and " ?”)
i.e. saving(:w), quitting (:q), running terminal commands (: !),
finding and replacing: (:s)
 Searching:
 /pattern – searches for the pattern in the document
 ?pattern – searches for the pattern backwards
 n – looks for the next ocurrence of the search
 N – looks for the previous ocurrence of the search
 :%s/old/new/g - replaces all old with new throughout file

10. SOME PLUGINS
 pathogen - https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
 rails.vim - https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails
 NERD-tree - https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
 NERD-commenter -
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenter
 Ctrl-P - https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
 Snipmate - https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim
 Surround - https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
 Zen-coding - https://github.com/mattn/zencoding-vim
And many more…

11. RESOURCES
 Derek Wyatt’s tutorials - http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/
 Vimcasts – http://vimcasts.org
 Use vim like a Pro - https://leanpub.com/VimLikeAPro
 VIM’s Documentation -
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/ usr_toc.html
 Coderwall’s VIM network - https://coderwall.co m/n/vim
 Cheatsheet -
http://cloud.github.com/downloads/ahrencode/Miscellaneous
/vim-cheatsheet.pdf
 VIM tutorial -
http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/ vim_tutorial.html
 Vimtweets - http://www.vimtweets.com / || @vimtips
 My VIM config - https://github.com/rkrdo/vimfiles

12. THANK YOU!