Vim is a powerful text editor known for its modal editing system and extensive plugin ecosystem. It has three main modes - Normal mode for navigation, Insert mode for typing text, and Visual mode for selecting text. Vim's power comes from keyboard shortcuts like hjkl for movement and commands like x for deletion. Plugins add even more functionality for tasks like code completion, syntax highlighting, and more. Learning Vim involves mastering Normal mode commands before relying on the mouse or arrow keys.

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!