4:35 the language (basics) 5:36 repeatable & undoable 6:48 verbs/operators in vim 8:21 nouns in vim - motions 9:05 nouns in vim - text objects 12:18 nouns in vim - parameterized text objects (find/search) 16:33 where to learn/read 18:35 tips for mastering the language 20:35 relative number 22:45 visual mode is a smell 24:18 custom operators (from plugins) 24:42 tpope/vim-surround 26:02 tpope/vim-commentary 26:48 vim-scripts/ReplaceWithRegister 27:41 christoomey/vim-titlecase 28:21 christoomey/sort-motion 28:57 christommey/system-copy 29:52 custom nouns (objects) 30:03 michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object 31:08 kana/vim-textobj-entire 30:30 kana/vim-textobj-line both requires kana/vim-textobj-user 32:15 ruby block 33:30 Finding more custom text objects
Vim is a great tool since .. ever. I woul add the 'z' core commands to the list of things I miss in every other editor I use. z puts the current line on the top of the screen. z- puts the current line as the last one of the screen. And z. scrolls the text so that the current line go the cneter of the screen. So useful for positioning text on the screen
@@oredaze these 3 commands are there since the AT&T Unix System V in the 80's z. z and z-. There were no zt or zb so these may have been added later for some reason.
The Unix folks rolled out some really cool tools: vi awk sed... On the contrary, Microsoft rolled out wasteful conventions: file path delimiter with back slash, space in file path. I have to deal with these craps everyday, it's a huge waste of human mind.
I've been looking for a long time why I would have to learn vim and why people are so enthusiastic about it. This is the first video that explains exactly that instead of trying to convince me to use an archaic editor on my graphical OS. Very good video. Very clear. This makes learning vim a lot easier as well now that I understand this.
Same here. Although I felt that I liked Vim, I could never understand why people chose it over something like vscode. I suspected the reason people chose and bragged about using Vim was largely due to ego, but I am finally seeing a clearer explanation which makes more sense to me.
Me : The last thing I need in my life is one more tool to learn, I should focus on solving problems, Sigh and clicks anyway. Chris : 2000 commands memorizing 30 intuitive things Me : Aight keep talking
I've officially switched to (neo)vim this past week. My previous IDE of choice was IntelliJ IDEA so it was a huge jump and took me awhile to let go, but I finally did it and I'm so happy about it!
This was a great presentation, thank you! Of course there wasn't enough time to cover most of what Vim can do, so here are a couple of topics that have been left out, sorted in alphabetical order because it's easy to do with Vim :) : - "*", "#", "{", "}", "[", "]", "(", ")", "$", "%", "=", "``", " ' ' " (without spaces), "^", "0", "," (comma), ";", "n", "N", CTRL+D, CTRL+U, CTRL+F, CTRL+B, etc. - ":digraphs" to insert any fancy character. - ":e!" to revert to the last saved state of the file. - "CTRL+D" and "TAB" in command mode to autocomplete commands! - "CTRL+V" in normal mode to visually select "blocks" of text (horizontal and vertical selection character-wise) → motions can be applied to visual selection too, for example "v", then "w", then "fo", "/search_term" to select up to search_term, etc. - "q:" to display history of normal mode commands (not ":q" which quits). - Abbreviations - Alternatives based on Vim (Spacemacs, SpaceVim, Neovim, spaceneovim, ONI... The integrated terminal features in Neovim are wonderful and ONI is quite promising too!) - Applying custom settings in configuration file (colorcolumn, cursorline, linebreak, tabstop, smartcase, hidden... And hundreds of other settings) - Buffers and applying commands to them (bufdo, :bn, :bp, :bf, :blast, :b#, :ls) - CTRL+Z to exit Vim and type terminal command. "fg" to go back to Vim. Quick and practical! - Color schemes! I really enjoy solarized, PaperColor and gruvbox. - Completion in insert mode (CTRL+X + CTRL+N or many other combinations to complete words from file, from dictionary, from filenames in working directory, etc.) - Custom functions (toggle highlights, search and replace specific text, etc.) - Custom mappings for pretty much anything - Folds (za, zM, zR...) - GUI versions (GVim, MacVim) - Git integration (the plugin vim-fugitive is extremely useful!) - Jumps (CTRL+O, CTRL+I, CTRL+], CTRL+T, etc.) - Macros & normal commands applied on a range → Very powerful! Examples at vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros (which is also a good resource for many other topics about Vim) - Marks → very convenient to jump back to location in file or even multiple files (m[LETTER], '[LETTER], `[LETTER]) - More Ex commands!!! For example ":%d" to delete everything in current file, ":%y" to yank everything, etc. - More basic commands like yyp, xp, dd, gg, G, W, e, E, A, I, CTRL+R to redo, C, B, p, P, S, s, R, r, gUU to UPPERCASE whole line, guu to lowercase whole line... - More plugins! → ALE for linting, jedi for autocompletion, vim-airline, vim-easymotion, comfortable-motion.vim, fzf for fuzzy file finder, nerdtree for displaying files in tree, etc. - Plugins managers (vim-plug, pathogen, Vundle, etc.) - Positioning the cursor (H, M, L, zz, zt, zb, etc.) - Registers (:registers, working with registers, editing macros, yank register, black hole register, search register, expression register, etc.) - Run external Bash commands with ":!". Also very cool with ":read !" which will output the result of the command in the buffer. - Shortcuts in insert mode (CTRL+R for registers, CTRL+W to delete a word backwards, CTRL+U to delete "everything" in the line backwards, CTRL+H to delete a character backwards, CTRL+V to insert literal characters like escape, enter, tab, etc.) - Spelling feature for many languages and custom dictionaries (find spelling errors with "[s" or "]s", add word to dictionary with "zg", remove word with "zw", correct spelling mistake with "z=", etc.) - Splitting and managing windows (CTRL+W + CTRL+), ":split", ":vsplit", resizing, rotating windows, moving between windows, etc. - Substitute & Global commands with incredible REGEX expressions - TMUX, Terminator or other terminal integrations to work exclusively and efficiently from terminal. - Tabs (:tabNext, :tabclose, :tabdo, :tabedit, :tabfirst, :tablast, :tabmove, :tabnew, :tabonly, gt, gT) - UP and DOWN arrow keys in command mode for history of searches and commands. - Vimtutor to start learning from scratch - vim-adventures.com or openvim.com for online learning For all else, Vim has a VERY extensive help system with bars navigation (CTRL+]) → accessible by typing ":h" without quotes, then enter. And most importantly, how to quit Vim: ":qall!" (or variants), then enter ;).
I actually lost count how many times I've watched this presentation! It's what got me into VIM, big time. So, thank you, Chris Toomey! You do some good work, too, haha! I have a little update on Tim Pope's Commentary plugin. It now uses a different syntax than when this video was made: g + c + l = comment out a line; g + c + j = comment one line down; gcgc = uncomment(Uncomments a whole block of text if it was commented out in one motion, a paragraph, for example) Many thanks for providing the presentation video, guys!
Great talk! I learnt so much. At 31:53 we actually do have language for a line, its called `_`. `c_` is shorter than `cil` and doesn't require a plugin (works with dot repeat too).
This is so good as a tutorial! I had given up because no matter how many people swore by vim, I could never remember a single command. I think this if finally giving me the intro I need to understand the logic of these commands and get somewhere without staring at a cheat sheet!
Not sure if you have found this out by now or not, but I seen you delete a character, then type its lowercase for an example. If you hover the character, and hit ~ it will invert the case. It's pretty useful in my opinion!
Also try to hover the number, any digit within it and type "Ctrl-a" or "Ctrl-x", this will increase or decrease entire number accordingly. I was thinking can also be a cool feature to hover over word "true" for example, and be able to convert it to "false" :).
I reckon that this video is the best intro to vim I've found. It worked for me, and I've shared it numerous times, I believe it takes people from "interested" to "all in". So well done!!
Wow, I knew about "inner" only in combination with brackets etc., but didn't imagine it working with words and paragraphs. He is right indeed, there's no ceiling.
I use vim from time to time on the command line to edit a file for minor changes... but frankly, being realistic, when coding, I'm on vscode, Qt editor, pycharm for python with all the typing and syntax tools available... especially OOP members highlighting... does it make sens to go for vim? I think it would be more efficient to have the few text operations available in the gui through the "visual perception of the user" and leave the text typing of commands and logic Part of the user's thinking dedicated only to main goal ie. Programming, building the logic and writing down code. And that's what a decent gui code editor offers, and definitely during all the development process the main task is not using gui or vi, vim in the trickiest most advanced fancy way but to just write code around efficient logic... and at the end of the day, on delivery, it brings in no additional trophy to state under which editor it was written vi, vim or gui editor ... the text would've been the same. In my opinion.
Even after 8 years, this is still a great video (like the resources, Chris mentioned in the video). I‘ve watched it for about 4 times over the last year and every time it gives me some additional extra(I am using vim as my main editor for 14 years now). This is because it is packed so densely with information, it is almost impossible to get everything the first time. For a non native speaker, slowing down the video to 0.75 helps a lot 😉 Thanks Chris!
well that explains that. Now i guess ima be vim guy.... cause neato, i thought it was just a good way to troll new linux users who need to edit config files. absolute genius.
Really useful. I'm a linguist not a programmer and I use vim every day. I really like the idea here of vim as a language, and realized that's how I learn(ed) it - I think "change two words" and type 2cw automatically. I see the point about using text objects rather than movements though for the sake of repeatability - that's my big take-home from this video. Thank you!
just wow ! I've been using vim very casually here and there. I knew there was more under the hood but i wouldn't have thought that much. Time to practice to learn and incorporate those !
Dude. I'm like : Am I taking crazy pills ? Is this dude talking about that same text deal I used for editing the /etc/vfstab in Sun's Solaris OS back in like 2003 ? . . . Whoa.
I think any talk can never really do vim justice. You can’t know how powerful the commands can be unless you use them. That’s why I think anyone serious about programming should give vim a couple weeks of try. Vim is really different from any other text editor so you’re not going to be a pro on it in a day. In fact you’re probably not even gonna be able to move around probably for a couple hours at best but that’s fine. Just like you said, the effort really does pay off in the end
Funnily enough the 1st example is incorrect..."dw" does not stand for delete a word but for delete till next word. It means that if the cursor is not placed at the beginning of the word to delete it won't work (the 1st part of the word will remain). Use "daw" to delete a word with the cursor placed anywhere in the word to delete.
I use vim on vscode using an extension, it’s got the power of search and editing from vim as well as all the capabilities of vscode. Haven’t looked back since
Great talk man, I am vim user but I rediscovered power of vim by knowing vim better. Thanks buddy. NOTE: I was so into the language I had tried to use some of them by mistake while typing this language. ;-)
Coronavirus is coming but i want to learn to touchtype and use vim so my thoughts become commands. Ya know? It shouldn't be typing a command to do stuff, it should be THINKING a command and it's done, ..and i mean thinking in a subconscious sense. Really, not thinking at all. Vim with touchtyping lets you work at the speed of thought. I'm just about there and it's exciting as all fuck! For the first time, i literally feel like my thoughts are controlling the editor.... fucking awesome!
Great great talk. I have one doubt (silly, surely), when Chris talks about Indent, Entire, Line, and Ruby Block plugins, does he say the keystrokes are: cm a i (for Indent), cm a e and dae (for Entire), c a l (when talking about Line) and c m a r (when Ruby Block)? my doubt is, what does that "a" do in those commands? What is the difference between "i" and "a" when deleting a sentence "d i s" vs "d a s"?,. Ok I figured it out, "i" is only the inner content, and "a" affects the content and the container, cool.
i'm getting little shots of dopamine and 'ah ha!' moments constantly while watching this. I'm going to commit to VIM, I love the idea of just thinking through stuff and not having to get distracted by bells and whistles, just pure efficiency...
So clever for relative line number. Set these two lines in .vimrc set relativenumber " show relative line number set number " show current actual line number
I also have those lines in my .vimrc: " Show absolute numbers when in insert mode or losing focus :augroup numbertoggle : autocmd! : autocmd BufEnter,FocusGained,InsertLeave * set relativenumber : autocmd BufLeave,FocusLost,InsertEnter * set norelativenumber :augroup END I think it's a nice addition :) I only need relative numbers in the file I'm currently working on
That is a great MiC, here I was thinking oh boy, we gonna hear the big gulp when he was about to drink his water, but ...nothing..... no gulp noise. Ok back to VIM
"Typing is not the bottleneck." I discovered this just recently. I've been focusing on speed, but in hindsight I didn't solve problems faster, but introduced bugs faster only to spend more time trying to solve them. Vim had me somehow realize this. After 20+ years of computers and now switching to Linux, these tools (vim, the terminal, cli tools, basically Linux in general) opens a new way to experience computers. Funny is I realized why do I need a dedicated IDE? Linux IS an IDE you configure entierly yourself.
Vim should at least start with Insert mode default, this way everybody could start with it in a more intuitive way and slowly learn the keyboard commands.
I came back to this video after 10 months to say that after I've watched this video I started using Vim as a plugin for VS Code. It was a pain for the first month. But now I can't work without it. It makes my life as a developer so easier. I'm sure I'll be using it for the rest of my life. Love Vim.
thoughtbot? More like Get-get-get-get, got-got-got-got Blood rush to my head lit hot lock Poppin' off the fuckin' block knot Clockin' wrist slit watch bent thought bot. Am I right?
At first, I was like; why would I waste time learning all these commands? Then it occured to me that I'm an idiot assuming the commands wouldn't be perfectly logical and intuitive. Oops. Time to learn vim! And now I'm immediately thinking I want everything to use vim commands.
I know this is 5 years later, but... @31:36 - "...don't really have a good way to describe the text starting from the g..." If you have autoindent set (:set ai) then cc will change the line starting from the first non-whitespace character.
I do not want to sound puristic but I do not even use line numbers at all. I just habe the ruler on that is enough most of the time. Search is your friend. I am still fast and effortless nonetheless.
Title case is a move in a nice direction. Using VIM as a word processor for prose or LATEX is very nice and there are few plugins for this type of use.
![[Full Episode] The Restaurant War Thailand ศึกพ่อค้าซ่าแม่ค้าแซ่บ Episode 2 | 29 ก.ย. 67](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r3lfLNH6Ke4/mqdefault.jpg)
The thing thats special about vim as a text editor is that people who use it hold entire meetups about it
Is it just an incredible text editor or a software-based religion?
@@strictnonconformist7369 I would have said both, but vim is not so much a religion as it is a way of life
@@aprameyanaganur2934 ah so a cult got it
vim is for consistency in your writing or editing process. Say what you want about it but it’s usefulness cannot be questioned.
@@johnyepthomi892 totally agree. I myself use vim as my text editor (well, neovim)
He matched his shirt with the VIM logo :)
Congratulations your mastered in vim😂
@@azharsayyad8246 haha
LOL
good observation
You Vim does not edit text it edits users.
This talk was a huge break through for me: "Vim is a language where operators act on text objects." BOOOM thank you :D
I just woke up from a nap, left youtube on and now im learning a strange language.
Even 8 years later, people are still finding great value in these videos. Cheers, Chris.
4:35 the language (basics)
5:36 repeatable & undoable
6:48 verbs/operators in vim
8:21 nouns in vim - motions
9:05 nouns in vim - text objects
12:18 nouns in vim - parameterized text objects (find/search)
16:33 where to learn/read
18:35 tips for mastering the language
20:35 relative number
22:45 visual mode is a smell
24:18 custom operators (from plugins)
24:42 tpope/vim-surround
26:02 tpope/vim-commentary
26:48 vim-scripts/ReplaceWithRegister
27:41 christoomey/vim-titlecase
28:21 christoomey/sort-motion
28:57 christommey/system-copy
29:52 custom nouns (objects)
30:03 michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object
31:08 kana/vim-textobj-entire
30:30 kana/vim-textobj-line
both requires kana/vim-textobj-user
32:15 ruby block
33:30 Finding more custom text objects
thanks
Cheers
Bless
awesome!
My man
I also learned new youtube shortcuts trying to apply the commands here
I actually pressed b to wind this video back... I vote youtube starts supporting Vi commands!
Vim is a great tool since .. ever. I woul add the 'z' core commands to the list of things I miss in every other editor I use. z puts the current line on the top of the screen. z- puts the current line as the last one of the screen. And z. scrolls the text so that the current line go the cneter of the screen. So useful for positioning text on the screen
@FichDichInDemArsch dont forget z. = zz but in half the time since you can hit z. almost at once ;D
I didn't know there is a duplicate of zt(top) and zb(bottom), which does the same thing you described :)
@@oredaze these 3 commands are there since the AT&T Unix System V in the 80's z. z and z-. There were no zt or zb so these may have been added later for some reason.
The Unix folks rolled out some really cool tools: vi awk sed... On the contrary, Microsoft rolled out wasteful conventions: file path delimiter with back slash, space in file path. I have to deal with these craps everyday, it's a huge waste of human mind.
I've been looking for a long time why I would have to learn vim and why people are so enthusiastic about it. This is the first video that explains exactly that instead of trying to convince me to use an archaic editor on my graphical OS. Very good video. Very clear. This makes learning vim a lot easier as well now that I understand this.
Same here. Although I felt that I liked Vim, I could never understand why people chose it over something like vscode. I suspected the reason people chose and bragged about using Vim was largely due to ego, but I am finally seeing a clearer explanation which makes more sense to me.
5 years later, and this is still great stuff, it's all still accurate and current, and I still learned something I didn't know. That's Vim, isn't it?
Harley Burton “it’s all still accurate and current”
Well it’s like 20+ years old 😂
At 23:53 -- "Relative number's got you covered, absolutely" -- that made me laugh a lot. 😀
Me : The last thing I need in my life is one more tool to learn, I should focus on solving problems, Sigh and clicks anyway.
Chris : 2000 commands memorizing 30 intuitive things
Me : Aight keep talking
Vim, if u you're absolutely beginner
This book "vim from wtf to omg" will be useful for you
Been using vim for well over 7 years now and still learned a lot from this. Like he said - never reach the ceiling.
I've officially switched to (neo)vim this past week. My previous IDE of choice was IntelliJ IDEA so it was a huge jump and took me awhile to let go, but I finally did it and I'm so happy about it!
The ideavim plugin is great for IDEA. vim is great but its not an IDE, and sometimes you need an IDE.
This was a great presentation, thank you! Of course there wasn't enough time to cover most of what Vim can do, so here are a couple of topics that have been left out, sorted in alphabetical order because it's easy to do with Vim :) :
- "*", "#", "{", "}", "[", "]", "(", ")", "$", "%", "=", "``", " ' ' " (without spaces), "^", "0", "," (comma), ";", "n", "N", CTRL+D, CTRL+U, CTRL+F, CTRL+B, etc.
- ":digraphs" to insert any fancy character.
- ":e!" to revert to the last saved state of the file.
- "CTRL+D" and "TAB" in command mode to autocomplete commands!
- "CTRL+V" in normal mode to visually select "blocks" of text (horizontal and vertical selection character-wise) → motions can be applied to visual selection too, for example "v", then "w", then "fo", "/search_term" to select up to search_term, etc.
- "q:" to display history of normal mode commands (not ":q" which quits).
- Abbreviations
- Alternatives based on Vim (Spacemacs, SpaceVim, Neovim, spaceneovim, ONI... The integrated terminal features in Neovim are wonderful and ONI is quite promising too!)
- Applying custom settings in configuration file (colorcolumn, cursorline, linebreak, tabstop, smartcase, hidden... And hundreds of other settings)
- Buffers and applying commands to them (bufdo, :bn, :bp, :bf, :blast, :b#, :ls)
- CTRL+Z to exit Vim and type terminal command. "fg" to go back to Vim. Quick and practical!
- Color schemes! I really enjoy solarized, PaperColor and gruvbox.
- Completion in insert mode (CTRL+X + CTRL+N or many other combinations to complete words from file, from dictionary, from filenames in working directory, etc.)
- Custom functions (toggle highlights, search and replace specific text, etc.)
- Custom mappings for pretty much anything
- Folds (za, zM, zR...)
- GUI versions (GVim, MacVim)
- Git integration (the plugin vim-fugitive is extremely useful!)
- Jumps (CTRL+O, CTRL+I, CTRL+], CTRL+T, etc.)
- Macros & normal commands applied on a range → Very powerful! Examples at vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros (which is also a good resource for many other topics about Vim)
- Marks → very convenient to jump back to location in file or even multiple files (m[LETTER], '[LETTER], `[LETTER])
- More Ex commands!!! For example ":%d" to delete everything in current file, ":%y" to yank everything, etc.
- More basic commands like yyp, xp, dd, gg, G, W, e, E, A, I, CTRL+R to redo, C, B, p, P, S, s, R, r, gUU to UPPERCASE whole line, guu to lowercase whole line...
- More plugins! → ALE for linting, jedi for autocompletion, vim-airline, vim-easymotion, comfortable-motion.vim, fzf for fuzzy file finder, nerdtree for displaying files in tree, etc.
- Plugins managers (vim-plug, pathogen, Vundle, etc.)
- Positioning the cursor (H, M, L, zz, zt, zb, etc.)
- Registers (:registers, working with registers, editing macros, yank register, black hole register, search register, expression register, etc.)
- Run external Bash commands with ":!". Also very cool with ":read !" which will output the result of the command in the buffer.
- Shortcuts in insert mode (CTRL+R for registers, CTRL+W to delete a word backwards, CTRL+U to delete "everything" in the line backwards, CTRL+H to delete a character backwards, CTRL+V to insert literal characters like escape, enter, tab, etc.)
- Spelling feature for many languages and custom dictionaries (find spelling errors with "[s" or "]s", add word to dictionary with "zg", remove word with "zw", correct spelling mistake with "z=", etc.)
- Splitting and managing windows (CTRL+W + CTRL+), ":split", ":vsplit", resizing, rotating windows, moving between windows, etc.
- Substitute & Global commands with incredible REGEX expressions
- TMUX, Terminator or other terminal integrations to work exclusively and efficiently from terminal.
- Tabs (:tabNext, :tabclose, :tabdo, :tabedit, :tabfirst, :tablast, :tabmove, :tabnew, :tabonly, gt, gT)
- UP and DOWN arrow keys in command mode for history of searches and commands.
- Vimtutor to start learning from scratch
- vim-adventures.com or openvim.com for online learning
For all else, Vim has a VERY extensive help system with bars navigation (CTRL+]) → accessible by typing ":h" without quotes, then enter. And most importantly, how to quit Vim: ":qall!" (or variants), then enter ;).
Damn. Thanks man.
Thanks, how do I save this comment?
amazing
I actually lost count how many times I've watched this presentation! It's what got me into VIM, big time. So, thank you, Chris Toomey! You do some good work, too, haha!
I have a little update on Tim Pope's Commentary plugin. It now uses a different syntax than when this video was made:
g + c + l = comment out a line;
g + c + j = comment one line down;
gcgc = uncomment(Uncomments a whole block of text if it was commented out in one motion, a paragraph, for example)
Many thanks for providing the presentation video, guys!
same here~
@nerd bruh, this shit is eternal, haha!
Great talk! I learnt so much. At 31:53 we actually do have language for a line, its called `_`. `c_` is shorter than `cil` and doesn't require a plugin (works with dot repeat too).
`cc` seems to work too
You can just use 'S' to substitute the entire line as opposed to small 's' that substitutes a character.
Hope Apple is donating some of their mega profits to Vim charities seeing their users are getting Vim for the same price as people who use Linux.
24:20 "Now we get into the fun stuff" he says, 20+ mins into an incredibly fun talk! Already know by this point that I'm switching to vim full time 💯
This is so good as a tutorial! I had given up because no matter how many people swore by vim, I could never remember a single command. I think this if finally giving me the intro I need to understand the logic of these commands and get somewhere without staring at a cheat sheet!
type _vimtutor_ in the terminal and repeat it 50 times until something sticks... that's what I did... :)
Could please anyone tell me the font and theme he used in this video? Thanks!
Not sure if you have found this out by now or not, but I seen you delete a character, then type its lowercase for an example.
If you hover the character, and hit ~ it will invert the case. It's pretty useful in my opinion!
Nice!
Thanks for the tip! Very useful!
Wow I hace being using gUl or gul, I didn't know there was a faster way of doing it
Also try to hover the number, any digit within it and type "Ctrl-a" or "Ctrl-x", this will increase or decrease entire number accordingly.
I was thinking can also be a cool feature to hover over word "true" for example, and be able to convert it to "false" :).
U for uppercase or u for lowercase works too. :-)
I reckon that this video is the best intro to vim I've found. It worked for me, and I've shared it numerous times, I believe it takes people from "interested" to "all in". So well done!!
I'm getting into managing Linux and open-source software so tutorials like this are invaluable.
Wow, I knew about "inner" only in combination with brackets etc., but didn't imagine it working with words and paragraphs. He is right indeed, there's no ceiling.
I love how passionate you are when explaining, thanks for the tutorial man
I use vim from time to time on the command line to edit a file for minor changes... but frankly, being realistic, when coding, I'm on vscode, Qt editor, pycharm for python with all the typing and syntax tools available... especially OOP members highlighting... does it make sens to go for vim? I think it would be more efficient to have the few text operations available in the gui through the "visual perception of the user" and leave the text typing of commands and logic Part of the user's thinking dedicated only to main goal ie. Programming, building the logic and writing down code. And that's what a decent gui code editor offers, and definitely during all the development process the main task is not using gui or vi, vim in the trickiest most advanced fancy way but to just write code around efficient logic... and at the end of the day, on delivery, it brings in no additional trophy to state under which editor it was written vi, vim or gui editor ... the text would've been the same. In my opinion.
I use vim extension inside vscode 😄
What a great dive into a Zen of VIm. And relative numbers is something that i was missing for so long not knowing it was there all the time
inner word ====== mind blown
So clearly explained, very smooth presentation, talks about best practices, and core principles of vim
Even after 8 years, this is still a great video (like the resources, Chris mentioned in the video). I‘ve watched it for about 4 times over the last year and every time it gives me some additional extra(I am using vim as my main editor for 14 years now). This is because it is packed so densely with information, it is almost impossible to get everything the first time. For a non native speaker, slowing down the video to 0.75 helps a lot 😉 Thanks Chris!
'f' - stands for 'following' and 't' for 'till' the char, word, whatever ;)
well that explains that. Now i guess ima be vim guy.... cause neato, i thought it was just a good way to troll new linux users who need to edit config files. absolute genius.
I took note about commands presented in this talk exclude the plugins part at gist.github.com/haxpor/e559a652480b5094353f5dad3f165dba.
Really useful. I'm a linguist not a programmer and I use vim every day. I really like the idea here of vim as a language, and realized that's how I learn(ed) it - I think "change two words" and type 2cw automatically. I see the point about using text objects rather than movements though for the sake of repeatability - that's my big take-home from this video. Thank you!
+James Harland Huh, I didn't expect 2cw to work, but it does; I always use c2w
Yup, both work. I read somewhere about the logic being different, but they both lead to the same result.
@nerd Hey, yep, every day.
@@okuno54thank goodness thats much inline semantically with how i say it mentally in my head so i will definitely not be forgetting this. Ta
just wow !
I've been using vim very casually here and there. I knew there was more under the hood but i wouldn't have thought that much.
Time to practice to learn and incorporate those !
Can we have the links to the mentioned plugins added to the video description please?
Sadly, it seems we can not.
Sorry about the (very) late reply, but you can! ctoomey.com/mastering-the-vim-language-slides.pdf has all the details and links
Dude. I'm like :
Am I taking crazy pills ?
Is this dude talking about that same text deal I used for editing the /etc/vfstab in Sun's Solaris OS back in like 2003 ?
. . . Whoa.
I think any talk can never really do vim justice. You can’t know how powerful the commands can be unless you use them. That’s why I think anyone serious about programming should give vim a couple weeks of try. Vim is really different from any other text editor so you’re not going to be a pro on it in a day. In fact you’re probably not even gonna be able to move around probably for a couple hours at best but that’s fine. Just like you said, the effort really does pay off in the end
Such a great speaker -- very calming and straight to the point.
Just here for the intro music
Funnily enough the 1st example is incorrect..."dw" does not stand for delete a word but for delete till next word.
It means that if the cursor is not placed at the beginning of the word to delete it won't work (the 1st part of the word will remain).
Use "daw" to delete a word with the cursor placed anywhere in the word to delete.
I use vim on vscode using an extension, it’s got the power of search and editing from vim as well as all the capabilities of vscode. Haven’t looked back since
Same here ✋🏼
Great talk man, I am vim user but I rediscovered power of vim by knowing vim better. Thanks buddy.
NOTE: I was so into the language I had tried to use some of them by mistake while typing this language. ;-)
You can find a second or nth instance of o with `2fo` or `fo`.
@@ProfesorCafe number
Biggest takeaways were working with text objects and making commands repeatable. Great video. Thanks!
Where and how can I get the full version of the jazz intro music!?
I've been using vim since 2012, and now, thanks to your presentation, I understand why.
25:43 To keep html tag attributes do cst
mnemonic: f/F -> Find, t/T -> Til (goes up unTil the thing it finds)
Good way to remember
Xcode sucks just a little less with Vim pluggin. Thank you Vim.
I have used vim for something around a year and a half and I love it, I knew with the diw and dip operations, but the cs" ' blew my head right off!
This talk really gets into the soul of vim. Thinking about repeatabilty made a lot of sense.
Coronavirus is coming but i want to learn to touchtype and use vim so my thoughts become commands. Ya know? It shouldn't be typing a command to do stuff, it should be THINKING a command and it's done, ..and i mean thinking in a subconscious sense. Really, not thinking at all. Vim with touchtyping lets you work at the speed of thought. I'm just about there and it's exciting as all fuck! For the first time, i literally feel like my thoughts are controlling the editor.... fucking awesome!
wow, this is a super cool and easy-to-follow learner friendly introduction to the basics of Vim. Really thank you! Clap, clap, clap!
Great great talk. I have one doubt (silly, surely), when Chris talks about Indent, Entire, Line, and Ruby Block plugins, does he say the keystrokes are: cm a i (for Indent), cm a e and dae (for Entire), c a l (when talking about Line) and c m a r (when Ruby Block)? my doubt is, what does that "a" do in those commands? What is the difference between "i" and "a" when deleting a sentence "d i s" vs "d a s"?,. Ok I figured it out, "i" is only the inner content, and "a" affects the content and the container, cool.
i'm getting little shots of dopamine and 'ah ha!' moments constantly while watching this. I'm going to commit to VIM, I love the idea of just thinking through stuff and not having to get distracted by bells and whistles, just pure efficiency...
So clever for relative line number.
Set these two lines in .vimrc
set relativenumber " show relative line number
set number " show current actual line number
I also have those lines in my .vimrc:
" Show absolute numbers when in insert mode or losing focus
:augroup numbertoggle
: autocmd!
: autocmd BufEnter,FocusGained,InsertLeave * set relativenumber
: autocmd BufLeave,FocusLost,InsertEnter * set norelativenumber
:augroup END
I think it's a nice addition :) I only need relative numbers in the file I'm currently working on
That is a great MiC, here I was thinking oh boy, we gonna hear the big gulp when he was about to drink his water, but ...nothing..... no gulp noise. Ok back to VIM
BrutusPalmeira it wasnt a mic attached to his body which prob helped
Good mic, good editor, whatevs 🤷♀️
"Typing is not the bottleneck." I discovered this just recently. I've been focusing on speed, but in hindsight I didn't solve problems faster, but introduced bugs faster only to spend more time trying to solve them. Vim had me somehow realize this. After 20+ years of computers and now switching to Linux, these tools (vim, the terminal, cli tools, basically Linux in general) opens a new way to experience computers. Funny is I realized why do I need a dedicated IDE? Linux IS an IDE you configure entierly yourself.
Vim should at least start with Insert mode default, this way everybody could start with it in a more intuitive way and slowly learn the keyboard commands.
I hear you mate. That's why I've set `alias vim="vim +startinsert"` in my .bashrc. Now vim opens in insert mode by default.
Where can I find the resources given in this talk? I figured they'd be in the description.
We've added them to the description, and can be found here: ctoomey.com/mastering-the-vim-language-slides.pdf
I watch it every months, and still have something to learn.
Great dude! Nice talk. Been using vim inside VSCode for a while now and didn't know about the dot operator. That is game changing
Yeah, I’ll be using that one a lot
I came back to this video after 10 months to say that after I've watched this video I started using Vim as a plugin for VS Code. It was a pain for the first month. But now I can't work without it. It makes my life as a developer so easier. I'm sure I'll be using it for the rest of my life. Love Vim.
And now I'm starting slowly transition from VSCode to real Vim with bunch of plugins.
@@serhiicho Have you switched from vscode to vim? And if so, what did you get from it?
@@tyafizi I didn't, still using VSCode with VIM plugin. It's easier for me
thoughtbot? More like
Get-get-get-get, got-got-got-got
Blood rush to my head lit hot lock
Poppin' off the fuckin' block knot
Clockin' wrist slit watch bent thought bot.
Am I right?
Technically speaking, f/F, t/T, and / are *motions*, not *text objects*.
At first, I was like; why would I waste time learning all these commands? Then it occured to me that I'm an idiot assuming the commands wouldn't be perfectly logical and intuitive. Oops. Time to learn vim!
And now I'm immediately thinking I want everything to use vim commands.
Mastering is the wrong word. It's more like submitting, succumbing, or perishing to. Se also: endure, suffer; torture, insanity, madness
Awesome talk: thank you! I've been using Vim for a few years and still learnt a bunch of stuff from this
SublimeWhat?
Oh, that's pretty.
Yeah, I use Vim.
...Bitches.
this is wholesome.
Yeeeeeeeeah... I'm definitely learning Vim now. I shudder at how much time I've wasted as a SWE up to this point.
Started with VIM today. This is very informative. Thank you!
VIM is how Linux elitists answer questions from Linux n00bs online to ruin their entire day and make them go back to using Windows.
I know this is 5 years later, but... @31:36 - "...don't really have a good way to describe the text starting from the g..." If you have autoindent set (:set ai) then cc will change the line starting from the first non-whitespace character.
There's a 7 hour course about vim for beginners on udemy and it is fantastic imo. a recommendation for any noobs
people and what about screen command, me personaly i dont care all that grindy stuff....
what's that clipboard utility you're using?
+Daniel Dosen found it.. flycut
very good talk. Good advice on sticking to the basics and going crazy on plugins
I do not want to sound puristic but I do not even use line numbers at all. I just habe the ruler on that is enough most of the time. Search is your friend. I am still fast and effortless nonetheless.
Is it a coincidence that Chris wore a shirt that's "a sortie" with Vim's logo? xD
I'm putting down the Emacs (org-mode), and backing away slowly.... wish me luck!
+1
how did it go?
@@iroveashe Emacs +evil FTW! Best of both worlds. W/ CapsLock mapped to Esc when tapped and Ctrl when held.
didn't know about the indent, entire custom text objects, was suprised to find out it works out of the box with vscodevim. thanks for this talk.
I think I’ve watched this four times now, and I learn something new each time.
This is a great talk. The way you described what makes it worth learning is so spot on. It applies to use of emacs as well!
I can't believe I've wasted soo many years using all these IDEs
So powerful. Thanks for this talk!
Please provide the talk notes containing the links for plugins which are mentioned
Vibhav Sinha i feel like vim should only allow you to install plug-ins once you have mastered everything else built-in infinitely more powerful
I just commited my heart to learn Vim, thanks Chris
A lot of my friend use vim but they don't even read English.
great talk! you made me realize I was using visual mode as a huge crutch!
oh wow. vim is so simple. d means delete and w means word. so dw means delete word. so surely cw will copy a word… right?
Title case is a move in a nice direction. Using VIM as a word processor for prose or LATEX is very nice and there are few plugins for this type of use.
+Rodrigo Camacho yeah, I think my days on Texmaker are counted.
This video + $ vimtutor = success granted
Great video, good to know about visual mode smell