Learning Vim in a Week 

after opening vim for the first time, you can''t quit. that's how addictive it is

The lecture starts at 11:00

I learnt Vim a year ago. I could probably say, it is the most significant thing i've learned in my life just after learning how to read.

That’s the most fluent talk on vim I have seen. Motivates me to start it now

I started learning Vim with this video around 6 years ago. I came across Vim when I had RSI problems in my wrist and try to get rid of mouse. Since then I am using Vim mainly. Thanks again!

One of the biggest advantages I’ve had with using vim for about 3 years now is that it simply doesn’t matter what system you’re on, whether if there’s Sublime or VS Code or whatever you usually use. Vim or Vi is pretty much pre-installed on every system. So you’re not only more effective and efficient but you’re also not dependent on any other text editor going forward

4:12 "God forbid Eclipse". I already love this video! LOL

Thanks Mike you did a great job on how I should approach Vim. I am a Linux Admin and form looking at this video this will help me out about.

Totally agree. Learning Vim is a process. I've been using it for about 13 years and I'm still learning new things every month.

This was insanely helpful! Been using Vim for around 2 months and this video really was a breakthrough for me.

Great video , I am now learning vim and it's going well after only a day. The one thing that helped me was to use chrome extension vimium in conjunction with vim. Seems to be easier as I am making use of all the navigation commands while browsing the web.

This was really inspiring. Vim sounds like an investment in life. Only one thing left to do. Practice, practice, practice.

Great Talk! Thx! On El Capitan you don't need Karabiner. Simply adjust "Key Repeat" and "Delay Until Repeat" under System Preferences > Keyboard. I'm from Germany and use a German Keyboard Layout for tickets and mail and from now on an US Layout for coding and vim. If I need Umlauts, I switch back and forth with ctrl+space instantly.

Thank you for introducing me to Vim and suggesting vimtutor. Life changing video!

Presenter's dotfiles: github.com/mscoutermarsh/dotfiles

best vim intro i've seen to date! +1

With you help I think I can learn vim in 2 days! Thank you very much.

Started vim last week. Thank you for this.

Learning Vim is like learning to type. It's frustrating but worth it in the long run.

Excellent starting point to learn this tool. Thanks a lot.

thanks for the screencast man :) really appreciated :)

One cool thing I have learned recently that Crtl+C does the same thing as ESC, which saved me a lot of time when changing mode. Another thing is that you can jump to any line by typing 'gg'. That certainly makes navigation easier.

Thanks a lot for this! Perfect tutorial to start from.

Wtf, this is some life-changing material. Especially after reducing my key delay I think my typing speed just exploded lol.

I should actually _thank you_ for the nice presentation. I just want to take all your points and use it for *Emacs*. It fits it well 1. Different from everything you have used before 2. Don't start at work 3. Break up with your mouse 4. But can it? ---- yes it can! 5. Always a better way! 6. Learn something every week And the quote from Tom too... " Sometimes you got to work a a little so you can ball a a lot "

Very comprehensible introduction, thanks! :)

10:40 the key repeat setting can now be changed in your terminal: defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10 # normal minimum is 15 (225 ms) defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1 # normal minimum is 2 (30 ms) It's life changing. You're welcome.

This key repeat tip, THANK YOU!

Very useful Vim intro and entertaining as well! :)

This is a great tutorial. Thanx a lot...

[ Emacs User Alert! ] The biggest problem with Vim keybindings that I could think of is that it really gets deep in your brain, and you'll not be able to effectively edit text on other software or platform without constantly reminding yourself NOT to use 'hjkl' to navigate or press 'i' and 'ESC' to hop in and out of Insert Mode. While with Emacs bindings all the navigating shortcuts are prefixed with Ctrl or Meta (Alt) and can be ported to different platforms once you get used to it!

Thanks for this talk. I'm starting to learn vim and yeah, it's a pain in the ass. One thing though, as I get used to moving around and doing advanced stuff in vim, and I press alt+tab to switch to another window, I forgot that I'm in another "mode" it confuses me that I can't navigate say through a web page like I do in vim.

for those on linux, you can change key repeat with 'xset r rate 300 50', of course can play around with those numbers and throw it in your bashrc for persistence

Thank you for this video. I watched this video and got started with VIM. however, I'm struggling with setting up color schemes for VIM. I've loaded the vim file to ~/.vim/colors and configured my .vimrc file, but every time I start VIM I get a long list of errors. I've tried multiple themes and all seem to do the same. Any help is appreciated. I've also subscribed as I'm interested in learning more about VIM and how to maximize efficiency while programming.

This was a great intro to Vim for a someone who's only seen Vim used in memes

man. a week. i use vim since 20 years and im still learning.

Awesome, thank you mate.

Thanks. Not bad presentation for beginners. It introduces some really cool vim's features which I like and using so much at work. And advices are good for people of any level, too (and not about Vim, but everything in our life, when we want become experts), as I think.

Very nice presentation, very cool. Thank you

9:18 regarding Caps Lock to Escape key remap, on macOS 13 Ventura the remap can be done natively by going to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts... > Modifier Keys > in a dropdown menu set Caps Lock key to Escape

Nice talk. Easy to remain engaged. Thanks!

Very encouraging! Thanks!

great presentation, was very useful to me

I started to learn Vim by my own because i was attracted by it, i am even learning to touchtype by using it a lot. The next step for me would be to get an HHKB and use it to code

i was looking for the softdrink Vim!

I've been using vi/vim for 32 years and I still consider myself a beginner.

Remapping ESC to Capslock is super beneficial if you have MacBook with touch bar model(2016-2018)

Map caps-lock to control, use C+[ instead of ESC.

Very Accessible. Great information for someone considering making the switch. If I do cross over from Sublime, this will make it a much better transition. Thank you.

I don't think remapping caps to escape is necessary at all. Been using it for a few years and am pretty good with it. A lot of people go after the capslock to rebind it for other things, so I'm always nervous to pick one and then feel I'm missing out on something else later. In the past I used caps as super while using a Model M because it didn't have a super key. I've seen someone remap it as "hyper" which is a modifier you don't really see on keyboards anymore, and it allowed them to use even more shortcuts. Kind of a neat idea.

i have been successful in changing the caplock to escape, but i can't seem to change the escape to caplock. What can i do?

Caps lock to escape is a great idea :D

How do I version control my vimrc? I can open my .vimrc file but I don't exactly know where it's located

Ctrl+C also works in place of escape without remapping

Good presentation, thanks!

Can You please tell what edit should be made in .vimrc to remap CapsLock to Esc key? Everybody talks about doing it, but no one showed exactly how to do this.

I've been learning for years and still find things difficult 😂 but overall it does increase my productivity. BEWARE: The learning curve is steep however well worth it! 👍

nice! thanks for the video!

very clear and engaging presentation

Yes Change Inside ) is easier to rem. than CI) command . :)

Nice talk thank you. Although I still use the capslock key sometimes so instead of remapping it I tend to use the Ctrl-[ combination which achieves the same thing.

Thanks for sharing this.

Actually should have slow key repeat as you should be discouraged of pressing something for a duration and instead try to duplicate the action the exact number of times instead. It will make you a better vimmmer in the long run :)

I want to learn Vim but at the same time I don't think it will make me more productive. I spend most of my time trying to figure out what's going on and debugging. Only a fraction of my time is spent typing out actual code. Maybe when I reach a stage when I can get an idea and bang it out in 15 minutes then Vim might look more enticing.

pain on the wrist/right hand while using your mouse is from bad posture, which puts unnecessary stress on your wrist, your elbow should be at the same height as your wrist resting on the table

I am not sure making key repeat faster is a good idea for a vim beginner as it might delay or even stop them learning all the ways to move the cursor other than just hjkl.

found it very useful... thnx

i completed vimtutor but the vimcasts still look too advanced for me. i tried a couple.

In your github repo "dotfiles" we changing gitconfig and other files via terminal comands. It is secure and don't broke my github or other things?

Link to dotfiles: github.com/mscoutermarsh/dotfiles github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles

I prefer Ctr + C, instead of Esc, and no need for remapping it to Caps Locks.

karabiner doesnt work for macos sierra :(

Is it possible to download the keynotes?

for some reason i love vim without even using it for programming :D also i always watch these vim videos high ^^

Pretty useful, thanks.

Isn't this the same intro music that Level1Techs uses in their news podcasts?

The first time vim completely blew my mind was when I first learnt about text objects, block objects and object motions 🤯🤯😂i was so excited, I spent the rest of that day just giggling at my screen 😭😂I had unleashed too much power 😂😂. I'd also recommend learning about jumps, the jump-list and how to navigate it. You become really sneaky in vim if you can move around quickly ti where you want to edit and actually make those edits 👌🏾. I know I've already said a lot (😂i can't shut up about vim), please make it a habit of reading the vim's own help documentation whenever you learn about a new cool command, I feel like it helps you get a perspective of how vim actually 'sees' things, understanding things from the editor's point of view. 😂 let me end this long rant here😂 :wq

thanks,i think it is very good for me

Really nice talk . cheers :)

This is neat. Learning anything in depth is difficult. Now try to follow up by doing LaTeX inside Vim - two hard editors one inside the other.

OS ten! TEN! besides that, awesome talk.

Or even better: disable key repeat entirely.

You don't need to remap the caps lock key to esc. Ctrl+c will cancel commands and has the side effect of escaping out of insert mode.

For me vim works best as a plugin for other _IDEs_ like Eclipse. That way I can edit code quickly without sacrificing the functionality provided by an IDE (debugging, bulk refactoring, advanced searching, to name a few)

This video is so inspiring :]

Guys, do you know some great analog of karabiner in windows 10?

Thoughtbot's dotfiles: github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles

I want to learn it because intellij has problems working via x11 forwarding

anyone have a link to the slides?

Vim tutor is amazing.

Hello, what do you think of using Sublime in Vintage mode with the VintageEx package?

I think your wrist was hurting because you were using your arrow keys, and Vim eliminates that. Just think about how contorted your right wrist gets to use the arrow keys for a couple seconds. That's also why I swapped my caps lock and backspace (takes a bit to get used to).

windows alternative to karabiner?

Nice and friendly video. Thanks for sharing :)

You actually should start at work. Just don't delete your previous editor/ide/whatever. That way you will learn how to do stuff in vim that is actually important for your workflow. And if you need to do something very quick and you don't know how to vim yet, just switch back. Eventually you will stop switching back and that is the moment when you are ready. Ready to start learning how to improve your worflow with vim instead of just duplicating it from previous ide :)

Chuck Norris tried Vim once...and only once

I've heard the opposite and you should slow down your key repeat to force you to use the more efficient commands.

I've been using Vim quite extensively and was more productive than ever before. However, after I switched to Emacs, there's no turning back. Board the flagship of holy Emacs, my friend! (If you miss the Vim shortcuts, just turn on Evil Mode in Emacs. You can still eenjoy the world that Emacs gives you) .

Actually vim can't: 1) insert one char from normal mode. You can `r` to replace under the cursor, but not add. Also `i` to insert, but then you have to . `c1l` leaves you in insert mode. Maybe you can `:s/^/`, but seriously, 7 keystrokes plus two ``s and a `^`? But yeah, you can use a super kludgy keymap of `nnoremap s ir`. 2) With a terminal, you can't map `[A-Z]`, i.e., control key plus _capital_ A-Z. Nor can you map `,` nor `.` (comma/period) And this sometimes doesn't even work with GUI vim variations (although there are workarounds).

cheat sheet link: www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html