Vim Tutorial for Beginners 

0:00:00 intro 0:01:19 why use vim? What can you do with it? 0:07:19 installation 0:09:00 basics 0:09:44 how to exit vim? 0:11:28 insert and normal modes 0:17:28 line numbers 0:20:00 relative line numbers 0:21:08 various options 0:22:11 .vimrc 0:24:30 key bindings 0:27:35 visual mode 0:28:25 deleting 0:28:34 yanking/copying/pasting 0:31:10 changing/replacing 0:33:35 navigating vim way

Man. Florian teaches Vim so seemingly effortlessly. It’s clear he has a lot of passion for Vim and has put many, many hours into practicing and customizing his setup.

finally... I can exit Vim 😂

The biggest reason for why you'd want to learn to use a text editing environment like Vim or Emacs is that using the keyboard allows you to get the commands into your muscle memory. It's like playing an instrument. After training, your fingers automatically perform complex motions without you thinking about it. That's something that you will never ever be able to using a mouse and menus. I am an Emacs user, but I am watching this to learn Vim (read Neovim) because that's the only thing that I can make run on my old and seriously weak Celeron based laptop.

Loved Vim for 15+ years. Its a superb editor. Coupled with sed commands you can handdle large data sets for research easily. Many editors also provide vim flavor and that is a impressive. Thanks for making this video and hope many hardcore programmers will adopt vim seeing benefit. Disclaimer: Yes, its addictive. Its hard to get started as well.

I think most younger folks that grew up in the modern era may not realize that the early computers were all operated from the keyboard. The Apollo landing computer only had a 3 by 5 keyboard (0-9, +, -) and some seven other main keys (CLR, PRG, ENTER, RESET etc). Hence was natural to find short-cuts for typing in commands quickly - an art that vanished with the emergence of the mouse (a concept Xerox invented and Jobs adapted in his Mac computer).

Thank you folks, vim is super handy and the more you excel the more it helps go through logs and understand the flow and debug the issues.

Vim was the coolest thing I learned last year. It has improved my productivity. Pairing it with tmux is super cool too, as well as fzf to fuzzy find and open files via the terminal. Getting use to the keys at first takes a while, but consistent practice or forcing yourself to code/write is what worked for me. There’s some cool tricks too. I think learning the basics is enough and you can pick up those tricks along the way by watching RU-vid or looking online. Configuration is a hill to climb itself, but :h for the win. What helped me was looking at how others set up their configs via their repos.

Never thought I would see a 1 hour tutorial of a code editor Edit: holy shit! Never knew I needed this tutorial! Gonna help me a lot. Thanks dude

This video is a public utility to our lives! I've watched just until 29 minutes, just for learning the basics. Thanks for this video!

I am new at coding, and the way you explained was very convincing and inspired me to learn all this stuff faster. Thank you.

Very nice. Clean, precise, no waffle, and no irritating music or distracting animations. Why can't all youtube tuts be as good as this?

Outstanding. The presentation is well-structured and smooth, not amateur. Listening is easy and captivating. I have to force myself to break away. I also go back to specific points in the presentation that I want to emphasize for myself.

I've watched I think 3 vim tutorials, every time I learn something new, now I learned the ci", ci) ci} Very useful, thanks a lot!

I started very briefly on Sublime Text as a teen and then used vscode ever since. Really excited to try this

I'm using vim in the basic way like at up to the 24 minutes of this video. With this tutorial I'm gonna use vim more often than I should this time, GOD willing. Thanks Florian and FCC for this wonderful tutorial on vim.

i've been using the stuff i learned here for 4 months and it has really improved my coding! thank you!

Finally I can save and exit from vim successfully. Thanks It's very useful now I can continue with vim for my daily editor.

I only used vim because I'm in the terminal so much, but now I'm determined to make vim my primary editor for c programming.

We need more outcomes based tutorials like this to on board more users into vim. Can you please update description or place syllabus and time stamps within comments?

as a person who works all day in excel and hates to use the mouse i appreciate the ability to menu dive and call features with the keys

the first 8 min of this video motivated me so much to watch all the video in one day

This is great! What I have been looking for about a few weeks now. I am an extremely slow navigator, mostly because I have a movement disorder. VIM helps me close the gap and probably widen it in my favor from Devs that are quick with their hands. I have been reading so many articles and tutorials. I have been combing VIM help system (Which has a lot of good stuff to get back to later) first I need to get up and running in VIM to use as a basic/lightweight IDE for HTML, CSS, JS and Rust, and once it is useable I can dive in and learn. VS Code is so bloated with stuff that gets in my way and it feels like a waste of time to learn when it seems clear VIM is way more versatile, especially when getting into embedded systems with Rust. I have been dipping my foot in Linux (mostly Ubuntu since v6, almost 20 years now) Just need some functionality that is not included in VIM with out some additional plugins, but I don't see anything geared to starting that even gets into that stuff, that people probably need to make the initial move.

can't stop watching at 3 am. my dream course

This is simply a tutorial of the HIGHEST QUALITY, cudos, will most likely watch it a third time or more

for anyone who want to try vim, but have a windows (and dont want to install WSL , for whatever reason) , you can install cmder (it is like a terminal app) very good ui AND yes , vim is alrealdy configured in it, give it a try , it was helpful when i was starting out with vim

How curious: during years I have been looking forward to make my own IDE mirroring Vim behaviour (or at least fantasying with the idea), then *I find out you already did so*. Impressive, most impressive.

FCC is a magician .. just today I was having difficulty exiting VIM Damn ... Here you are ... Now i will be an. Expert user 😁😁

Really useful. I use vim quite a bit but only in the most basic way. I've been through this at double speed and need to go back over stuff (of course) - I'm sure I'm going to be using it more, and better, now because of this. Thanks.

I just buy the vim master class tutorial from udemy, after following some youtubers and developers talking sweet of vim after you get use to it. After watching several free tutorials in youtube I decided to buy the course and give it a try

Florian Dedov the God of vim. Most of the time he use vim.

Thanks so much dude, this was incredibly comprehensive and wasted none of my time.

I have used vim for a year right now and I have to tell you it kinda 'No Pain No Gain", first time i used this it kinda shoot me into the face but right I don't even to touch the mouse anymore

Now this is something I've been wishing for a long time!

I've used vim for years but never bother to learn that many of it's features. Learned a few new tricks here! One thing I never new about was the register for yanked/cut strings, but even if I yank say 3 lines, only the latest shows up in the registry? Deleted (or cut) lines can pile up. I thought I could yank a bunch of lines and then use them later, which could be handy.

00:35:51 deletion of words 00:42:38 jumping between parenthesis 00:43:46 jumping to next symbol 00:44:24 deleting till symbol

Starting learning because of college course... Ended up loving VIM

This is awsome. I want to learn vim because I'm tired of VS code being slow as ****. Great course so far and can't wait to get better at it and use it on a daily basis at work

It helps me to learn more advanced vim tricks. I was suck with vim motion for months.

Omg, this is exactly what I needed, thanks a lot guys

Thank you very much. I discovered vim 2 days ago and I already love it.

How l used to shut the whole computer just to quit vim 🤣🤣 thanks bro love this no more scared of vim

this was useful. Thanks. Was hoping to learn a bit about how to add plugins or more complex vim configurations, but I'll look for that elsewhere. Thanks a lot for your time of making this video.

The reason for hjkl was due to terminal compatibility back when Vi was written. The arrow keys had different mapping from terminal to terminal. Vim kept the mapping due to users base request, 😊

After watching 40 minutes I'm like a magician :D Thanks!

You are doing a great job free code camp Brilliantly awesome Keep it up ✌😊💕🤗🤗

Even there's lot of code editor like vscode, atom.. But VIM is one of the favorite editor for linux distribution❤❤❤❤❤

What a relief... i finally jailbreaked from VIM, stuck for a while so i have to use my phone to google an escape plan 😄

Got everything I needed as a beginner from a single video. Big Thanks :)

I'm gonna get SO addicted to this...

Great video, thanks for sharing, I'll try to use Vim in my daily basis, I am an iOS Developer and XCode started to include Vim as editor so I want to begin using it.

I'm only 15 minutes into this tutorial and my mind is blown. I feel like I've been wasting so much time using my mouse when writing code! My only fear is that I'll become so used to it that I'll want it here in my browser. WAIT, someone made a Vim Chrome extension....

What a Legend! Thank you for this vid. Just wrote my first program using VIM, feeling like a badass coder for real! It doesn't work though lol, busy debugging. Many thanks FCC and Florian, very well explained. I would be keen to watch a vid or read up more on the plugins you use in vim and why if you ever make such content, will keep an eye out on your channel and on here. I ❤FCC 4 EVA!!!

Found a note about the Vim editor in the Codepen settings: Key Bindings I've been using Vim about 2 years now, mostly because I can`t figure out how to exit it

Easiest way for me to remember: H = Hop Left J = Jog or Jump Down K = [k]limb up L = Lean Right Only way I was able to make sense of it by making a story.

as an outsider, i can totally understand the power this tool possesses but it looks so overwhelming to get started with. i hope i practice and do more hands on to get used to it

This was an excellent tutorial! I've learned a TON of stuff about Vim! Thank you so much Florian!

Thank you for convincing me to use vim

I have no words, thanks you!

Such a great video for free is crazy !

Best Vim turorial ever!

Thank you for this awesome guide, I love to learn new tools and this will be very handy for me in my learning process.

Everyone should try the undo tree feature, this is absolutely amazing.

Video Starts at 8:59 Done till 47:32

This tutorial is the hardest to learn vim!

If you make a habit of saying out loud what you are doing when executing vim commands, you are not going to have to remember the keybinds, because they are essentially just the initials of what you are saying. "yank inner word" you'll remember that way easier than y+i+w.

I was trying to learn VIM. Adios VS Code! VIM, I'm coming!!! You guys rock!!!

Thank you folks for this video.

Thank you so much for this video, it really helped me to understand better the use of this text editor.

I recommend installing preconfigured vim like LazyVim to get started.

Thank you so much It helps me a lot I've just started learning linux..and now I'm half through the video hope it's ends well for me😅

Absolute legend of a channel

I thought the reason for "h,j,k,l" was because old terminal computers didn't have arrow keys? I know this from playing old roguelike games with that same keyboard configuration :D Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful

I'm glad I switched to Linux from Windows, and I should have done it earlier 😃

You definitely convinced me to check out your channel. Good job!

While wathing this, I have spent the past hour trying to figure out why you look familiar. I have finally found it. You remind me of Varga from breaking bad.

Yeah dude we are learning fext editor

Finally. I can actually use Vim now.

Imagine teaching a VIM course but you use the arrow keys instead of hjkl 🤣

I like VIM, but always used it for some quick editing, like config file change, and similar. What I want to know is how to create vim "profile" so I can jump to method declaration/definition (Python/C++) and also debugger integration, say with gdb/pdb. Can we get something on these topics? Many thanx, great video.

Thanks Florian and freecodecamp for such a wonderful session 🥳😍

Brilliant stuff! I am using Vim emulation for Visual Studio Code while I'm getting the hang of it. :D

I got inspired by this video and learned vim .Now i dont have to use mouse or touch pad mostly

Brilliant tutorial! Thank you and congratulations!

Just watched NeuralNine's videos!! Great tutorials keep doing

Now neovim does support lua language and since version 0.6 it includes a native lsp, blazingly fast

Very nice ! Best vim course.

This is what I needed!!

Thank You! You helped me alot to setup my first `.vimrc` configuration file for my VIM. I am so happy!!

Key Bindings from 24:30

Did anybody know? What side panel to show key when he press on keyboard. What’s that’s program name. ex screenkey , key showonscreen and etc . (Thanks for comment me)

I was looking for this thank you so much guys ❤️

Timing is so great

VIM is life !

very helpful for a beginner like me. Thankyou so much

Amazing video on teaching Vim, thank you very much!

Thank you for the detailed tuto, helped me a lot!

You can use Vim binding in Emacs

Great. I have been looking for a vim tutorial.

Very good Vim tuto. Do you plan to release another on Emacs?