This document provides an introduction and tutorial to the Vim text editor. It discusses Vim's modes, movement commands, text objects, buffers, splits, editing commands, and configuration options. It also recommends several plugins, and encourages practicing Vim commands to build muscle memory. The overall message is that Vim has a learning curve but is a powerful editor once mastered, especially via its keyboard-driven workflow.

1. Vim
the final text editor you need to learn
!
⾼高⾒見⻯⿓龍

3. Current Status
80% iOS app, 20% Ruby/Rails

4. Scenario

5. I'm looking for a text editor..

6. 1. launch quickly
2. easy to navigate between files
3. and pretty syntax highlight

7. Vim

8. Vim = Vi iMproved

9. Free and Charity

10. What's Vim?

11. it may look a little old-fashioned

12. but it can also be modern : )

13. So, Why Vim?

14. Keyboard-driven

15. Keyboard is King!

16. and, Why not Vim?

17. seems very hard to learn..

18. you won’t use other editors after learning
Vim..

19. Today, we have 2 Goals..

20. no Mouse

21. no Arrow keys

22. muscle memory

23. Tips

24. in terminal:
1. ctrl + z to stash vim, and type fg to bring it back.
2. ctrl + w to delete a word, ctrl + u to delete a whole
line, both work in terminal and vim edit mode.
3. ctrl + r to find history commands fuzzily.

25. How to Vim?

26. Practice:
Install Vim in your machine.
http://www.vim.org/download.php

27. :help

28. Modes
normal, visual, and edit mode

29. Modes Switch:
1. in normal mode, i or a or o to enter edit mode(i =
insert, a = append, o = newline)
2. in edit mode, ESC or Ctrl+[ to enter normal mode
3. in normal mode, hit v or V to enter visual mode
4. in visual mode, hit ESC or Ctrl+[ to normal mode

30. ESC or Ctrl + [

32. Practice:
launch Vim and switch between normal,
visual, and edit mode.

33. Movement
:h movement

34. move cursor with h, j, k and l
disable arrow keys if possible

35. photo by Kent-Chen

36. Practice:
Use h, j, k, l instead of using arrow keys.

37. http://vim-adventures.com/

38. ✓w or W to move cursor forward by a word, and b
or B is backward.
✓0 (number zero) to back to the begin of the line,
and $ is jump to the end.
✓fx will stop the cursor at the next "x" character in
current line, and F is search backward.

39. ✓ } will move cursor to next section, { move to last
section.
✓ gg will move the cursor to the top of the current
file, and G will jump to bottom.

40. Practice:
Use word jumpers (b, w, fx..etc) to move
cursor between words and lines.

41. ✓ zz, zb, zt
✓ / search, n can jump to next matched result, and N
will jump to last one.
✓ * search the word on cursor.

42. Practice:
search some keywords in your document.

43. Visual Selection

44. ✓ vit will visually select content between the tag,
while vat will even including the tag.
✓ vi" will visually select content between current
double quotes.
✓ viw will select the current word.
✓ ctrl+v to enter block selection mode.

45. Basic

46. ✓ :w write to file.
✓ :q exit Vim.
✓ :tabe create a new tab.
✓ gt to switch to next tab, gT to previous tab. (I
map gt and gT to F7 and F8 in my vimrc)
✓ :new to create a horizontal split window, :vnew
or :vs to create a vertical split window.

47. ✓ vi -o a.rb b.rb to open those two files at the same
time with horizontal split window.
✓ vi -O a.rb b.rb same as above, but in vertical split
window.
✓ vi -p a.rb b.rb to open files with tabs.
✓ vi http://www.eddie.com.tw will read the source
content into vim directly.

48. Practice:
1. quit Vim, and launch Vim, quite Vim, and
launch Vim .. x N
2. open a file with Vim, exit, then open it
again, then exit .. x N

49. Buffers
:ls, :bd, :b3, :b filename, :tab ba

50. Practice:
try to open several files, and switch between
them with buffer commands.

51. Vim Text Objects

52. d 3 w = delete 3 words

53. Word:
1. aw - around word
2. iw - inner word

54. Practice:
1. select a word, deselect, and select another word, and
deselect.. x N
!
2. select a word, delete it, select another word, and
delete.. X N

55. Sentence:
1. as - a sentence
2. is - inner sentence

56. Practice:
1. select a sentence, deselect, and select another
sentence, and deselect.. x N
!
2. select a sentence, delete it, select another sentence,
and delete.. X N

57. Paragraph:
1. ap - a paragraph
2. ip - inner paragraph

58. Practice:
1. select a paragraph, deselect, and select another
paragraph, and deselect.. x N
!
2. select a paragraph, delete it, select another
paragraph, and delete.. X N

59. Folding
:h folds

60. Basic:
- zf to fold selected lines
- zd to un-fold selected lines

61. Practice:
fold several lines, and unfold them .. x N

62. Editing

63. ✓ D to clear all content of current line after the
cursor.
✓ C like D, but enter insert mode.
dG will clear all content after the cursor, dgg will
clear all content before the cursor.
✓ x remove a character.
✓ . to repeat last action.
✓ dd to delete whole line, 3dd to delete 3 lines.
✓ u to undo, ctrl+r to redo.

64. Practice!

65. ✓ ~ to toggle upper case and lower case.
✓ :m+ to move current line to next line.
✓ :m-2 to move current line to previous line.
✓ >> to add indentation.
✓ << to reduce indentation.
✓ = re-format, gg=G re-format whole file.

66. Practice!

67. ✓ yy yank the whole line of the cursor.
✓ 3yy yank 3 lines.
✓ p paste content from register, 3p paster content
from register for 3 times.

68. Practice!

69. ✓ dw, diw to delete the word in the cursor.
✓ cw, ciw same as above, but enter insert mode.
✓ r to replace current character.
✓ J to concatenate current line with next line, 3J
will concatenate next 3 lines.
✓ > to add indentation, < to remove indentation.

70. .vimrc

71. ✓ set history=1000 keep 1000 lines of command line
history.
✓ set undolevels=100
✓ set ruler show the cursor position all the time
✓ set autoread auto read when file is changed from
outside
✓ set cursorline
✓ set number
✓ set numberwidth=4

72. ✓ set nobomb no BOM(Byte Order Mark)
✓ set clipboard+=unnamed
✓ set splitright always open vertical split window in the
right side.
✓ set splitbelow always open horizontal split window
below.
✓ set scrolloff=5 start scrolling when n lines away from
margins
✓ set showtabline=2 always show tab

73. ✓ set synmaxcol=128
✓ set viminfo= disable .viminfo file
✓ filetype on enable filetype detection
✓ filetype indent on enable filetype-specific indenting
✓ filetype plugin on enable filetype-specific plugins
✓ syntax on syntax highlight
✓ set hlsearch search highlighting
✓ set incsearch incremental search
✓ set ignorecase ignore case when searching

74. ✓ set nobackup no *~ backup files
✓ set noswapfile
✓ set nowritebackup
✓ set expandtab replace <TAB> with spaces
✓ set softtabstop=2
✓ set shiftwidth=2
✓ set tabstop=2

75. to disable sound on errors…
✓ set visualbell
✓ set noerrorbells
✓ set t_vb=
✓ set tm=500

76. file encoding…
✓ set encoding=utf-8
✓ scriptencoding utf-8

77. ignore something…
.o,.obj,.pyc
✓ set wildignore+=* * *
.png,.jpg,.gif,.ico
✓ set wildignore+=* * * *
.swf,.fla
✓ set wildignore+=* *
.mp3,*
.mp4,* *
.avi,.mkv
✓ set wildignore+=*

78. remove tailing whitespace…
✓ autocmd BufWritePre * :%s/s+$//e

79. key re-map…
✓ map <Leader><Leader> <Leader>c<space> comment
✓ noremap <F7> gT to previous tab
✓ noremap <F8> gt to next tab
✓ nmap <TAB> v> tab to add indentation
✓ nmap <S-TAB> v< shift-tab to reduce indentation
✓ vmap <TAB> >gv
✓ vmap <S-TAB> <gv
!

80. key re-map…
✓ map 0 ^
✓ nmap <leader>v :tabe $MYVIMRC<CR>
✓ map <leader>0 :topleft 100 :split README.md<CR>

81. Plugins

82. https://github.com/kaochenlong/eddie-vim

83. if you want to use my .vimrc
1. clone from my Github repo
2. cd to cloned repo and execute install script
3. make symbolic link for vim
4. done!

84. or if you trust me…
1. via curl:
sh <(curl -L https://github.com/kaochenlong/eddie-vim/raw/master/utils/install.sh)
!
2. via wget:
sh <(wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/kaochenlong/eddie-vim/raw/master/utils/install.sh -O -)

85. Pathogen
nice plugin manager
https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

86. NERDTree
A tree explorer
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

87. SnipMate
code snippets plugin, inspired by TextMate
https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim

88. ctrlp
Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, etc finder
https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim

89. surround.vim
quoting/parenthesizing made simple
https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

90. vim-multiple-cursors
Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim
https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

91. powerline
the ultimate vim statusline utility
https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline

92. rails.vim
Ruby on Rails power tools
https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails

93. fugitive
a git wrapper for vim
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

94. vimwiki
personal wiki for vim
https://github.com/vim-scripts/vimwiki

95. ragtag
https://github.com/tpope/vim-ragtag

96. Practicing!

97. References

98. http://blog.eddie.com.tw/screencasts/

99. and more practice.. : )