VIM Text Editor for Beginners

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• How to use VIM for text editing and programming

• How to manage multiple files in VIM

• How to use VIM with TMUX to improve your ability to multitask

• The basics of opening, saving, editing, and exiting a file.

• Common text operations like finding and replacing text.

• Working in the different modes of VIM.

• Working with and managing multiple windows in VIM.

• Working with multiple tabs in VIM.

• And mixing VIM with TMUX for multitasking.

Syllabus :

1. VIM Setup

• VIM setup on Unix
• VIM setup on Mac
• VIM setup on Windows
• Screenkey
• Getting Help in VIM and vimtutor

 

2. Vanilla VIM

• Launching VIM and Creating, editing, saving, and exiting your first file!
• Basic configuration: Theme and line numbers, syntax no and .vimrc
• Understanding the Modes of VIM
• h,j,k,l instead of the arrowkeys -- and the greater VIM philosophy!
• Visual Mode
• undo, redo, and changes
• Visual Mode - Cutting, yanking, and Pasting Text
• Deleting text
• Line Navigation
• Screen Navigation
• Navigation in Code
• Searching and replacing text
• Repeat with dot

 

3. VIM Exercises

• [Challenge 1] Basic Navigation and Editing
• [Challenge 1] Solution Walk through
• Vim Basics Badge Achieved!

 

4. TMUX and working with multiple VIM windows

• TMUX Basics
• Splitting VIM Windows
• Working with Tabs in VIM

 

5. Programmer Tools

• Snippets

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