Vim | GPI

Overview

Vim is a terminal-based text editor specially tailored to programming. It is best known for its unique keyboard shortcuts and editing style.

There are generally two choices when it comes to terminal-based text editors. You are free to choose whatever text editor you prefer, but because the course staff uses Vim exclusively and teaching two text editors is counter-productive, this course will focus only on Vim.

Lessons

Resources

Essential Reads

vimtutor
- Command line program that teaches you Vim interactively
Learning Vim in 2014
- An excellent collection of articles that outline how to get the most out of learning Vim.
- The Basics
  - Introduction of Vim’s history, and suggestions for how to approach learning Vim
- Vim as Language
  - Teaches Vim as a language, a crucial paradigm to understand when learning Vim

One-a-day tips

Learn Vim Progressively
- Good at outlining small sets of commands that you can learn to incorporate into your workflow incrementally
Vim Cheatsheet
- Quick reference

Interesting, non-essential reads

Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi
- Famous StackOverflow post explaining how to use Vim as a language

Reference and Next Level Vim usage

Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
- Very comprehensive look at Vim, from using it as en editor to adding plugins, to writing plugins yourself.