Vim Tutorials

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Probably like me, some people might be intersted in learning Vim (“the most powerful text editor”). In this topic we can add posts with Vim tutorials or cheat sheets or whatever helpful resource you may find :slight_smile:

I found this one today:

Learn Vim Progressively

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http://astonj.com/tech/learning-vim :003:

Also there’s a great theme here (Theme now lives here).

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Great @AstonJ, I’m going to use yours :smiley:

Unfortunately, the Elixir Vim theme doesn’t seem very good.

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Yeah I love that theme. If I’m able to figure it out, I will try to port it to Spacemacs, and then maybe Elixirfy it (for Vim too) :lol:

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The way I did it was by just switching one day and googling every time I got stuck. Don’t know if that’s the best way to go about it, but it worked for me!

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Learn VIM while playing a game.

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How could I forget Vim Adventures… it’s brilliant :023:

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When I used vim years ago (before switching to emacs) I watched the vimcasts tutorials. Most of them are at an intermediate or professional level (at least far beyond my skills when I watched them ;)), but I think they are a good learning resource when you have put of the baby-wheels.

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The most important tutorial when starting vim is the built-in vimtutor.

Then read this famous ‘grok vi’ post: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/606167

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+1 for vimtutor

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I found this interactive tutorial, looks nice
Best tutorial for starers :heartbeat:
https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/onramp-to-vim

http://www.vimgenius.com/

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thanks AstonJ,
I do like your articles about ruby,thanks.

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And… once one is proficient in Vi/Vim, the next evolutionary step is to step up and install Spacemacs. :slight_smile:
All the goodness of Vim and Emacs rolled into one.

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But I am not there yet … :slight_smile:

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If you know the basics as per the blog post I posted above, you should be fine :023:

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The best vim tutorial is just to try it exclusively for a month. Use :h or Google when you need help. Muscle memory takes time to develop.

Plenty of college freshmen get decent at vim every year without much/any help by just using it for a semester.

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To do this I would need to take vacation for a month :smiley:
But I have vim plugin for:

  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • visual studio code
  • chrome browser
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