Vim in 100 Seconds

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[@abhishekgururani6993]

I've been using vim for a year now, mostly because I don't know how to exit it.

[@ayush.kumar.13907]

you just power off your computer, else there is no saving you

[@w1d3r75]

Old

[@spicybaguette7706]

:!sudo rm -rf /

[@ayush.kumar.13907]

@@spicybaguette7706 lolmao

[@AbhishekBM]

@@spicybaguette7706 jokes on you, I use doas

[@Noobificado]

Vim improved my productivity a lot. Now I can get compile time errors way faster than before.

[@Nexus-rt1bm]

lmao

[@adissentingopinion848]

Fail faster, bro.

[@itzhacov]

fail faster learn earlier

[@danielrdrigues]

And more, if you type before thinking, I spend way more time thinking than typing, especially with snippets

[@adissentingopinion848]

@@danielrdrigues My greatest thoughts while coding happen when I bust out the pen and paper to evaluate my design before I code a logical error that is impossible to debug. Either you catch the error while designing, or you easily catch where your code doesn't align with your sketched design.

[@altimmons]

“You might find your self in vim with no way to escape” You just described every interaction I’ve had with vim ever.

[@SomeRandomDude821]

esc, colon. then q if you've made no changes, wq to save and quit, q! to force quit without saving.

[@betaradish9968]

Every time I think I have sent a file to nano and it winds up in Vim. And I inwardly sigh and curse the terminal Gods.

[@kshitijrajgude]

@@SomeRandomDude821 i use ctrl z.

[@acc373r4t0r]

"Everytime you touch the mouse your productivity decreases" Me, a long-time FPS player: Ha !

[@CodingNuggets]

What's funny is how many upvotes on stackoverflow the question of how to exit VIM has (4k+).

[@Squee7e]

The big question which comes to mind is: How did they get there when they were locked in the console? 🤔

[@developer4837]

@@Squee7e They are asking for a friend

[@shasherazi]

@@Squee7e through their mobile phone

[@Perseagatuna]

@Kanashimi Or be like gnu nano and use CTRL + X to quit and then a prompt for saving

[@kratosgodofwar777]

@@Squee7e they used vim to ask the question

[@TobiasSN]

I love how he uses the VS Code terminal to demonstrate it.

[@Fireship]

I knew that would get called out, but did not expect it so quickly

[@codeaperture]

@@Fireship 😂 hey I currently want to purchase your courses. Will I access everything previous such as Flutter and others if I subscribe this month for quarterly.? Are they downloadable? I'm new to your platform slack but haven't purchased a single before. Kindly help

[@juliang9574]

@@Fireship why didn't you use the vim extension for VSCode? Edit: I didn't finish video

[@shreym03]

To be fair vim for VSCode isn’t always 100% working with key bindings. So it’s fine to use vim in the integrated terminal

[@vaibhavbv3409]

@@Fireship Why are people so orthodox with editors like emacs and vim? . Why not encourage the use of vscode itself? .Vscode would have saved hours of time for most of the users even with less experience.I don't think outdated editors like vim / emacs would have made a difference even if it didn't exist today.

[@Moonlight-pk2st]

Title: 'Vim in 100 seconds' Me: sees that the video is 12 minutes long Also me: *something's wrong, I can feel it*

[@Moonlight-pk2st]

@@emacsfanatics4939 Opinion

[@alessandrodinisio5491]

Ikr, had to rewind the page to be sure.

[@techwizpc4484]

Imagine if it took him that long to figure out how to exit Vim.

[@LambdaCreates]

Actually, most of that is the Beyond 100 Seconds, the 100 Seconds part ends at 2:18. That's STILL around 38 seconds off 100 seconds.

[@madhououinkyoma]

It's this feeling I've got

[@JesperHasselquist]

What is being referred to as "command mode" in the part after the 100 seconds, is actually called normal mode. Command mode is what you enter when you hit colon ( : ).

[@gonzalo_rosae]

exactly

[@jasonli1060]

yep, this was a mistake in the video

[@jakestewart5915]

read the documentation. :h command-mode. command mode and normal mode are synonymous. you’re talking about command-line mode.

[@thestopper5165]

Hitting colon is pretty uncomfortable for all participants. (I'll make my own way out...)

[@alexismandelias]

The beyond 100 seconds part has less information than the 100 seconds though...

[@danielegvi]

Someone had to say it, I love Fireship's videos because of how dense in knowledge they are. Whenever he brings out a guest they always move at a glacial pace in comparison, which is fine, but it's not Jeff's style at all. Feels like I'm watching someone else's channel.

[@kingundfaker]

I think the same and in my opinion it kicks me out of the flow when the 'master' (at their topic) talks slower or not precise! Don't get me wrong, it's still great content but it was better when he made the videos all himself. I also know this is a lot of time and work especially to keep up with his information density throughout the whole video

[@khayyamaurelius912]

vimtutor and :help user-manual is all anyone will ever need.

[@mmshasan]

I used vim in 2005 for the first time in Linux and used CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot the server to get out of it 🤣🤣🤣

[@Gregorius421]

`killall vim` ;) on another console

[@spicybaguette7706]

sudo rm -rf / also works

[@mmshasan]

@@spicybaguette7706 I was a total noob back then.

[@Gregorius421]

@@spicybaguette7706 rm is fancy, but won't actually terminate the vim process, CTRL+ALT+DEL is still needed for full effect :D

[@saadisave]

@@spicybaguette7706 That's a dangerous joke. Someone might actually try it.

[@kipchickensout]

I like how in the "Without Vim" example he does the editing extra slow and tedious so that the vim method is faster xd

[@egg-mv7ef]

yeah lmfao people who are even somewhat capable can edit code as fast as vim

[@guitartsword]

Yeah, I like how in the with vim part he even had a typo and without vim he did all perfect

[@gnikdroy]

​@@egg-mv7ef Sure, show me a common way to do something like cs'" -> Change surrounding single quotes to double quotes ci" hello! -> Change stuff inside quotes to hello! People who are somewhat capable to quickly edit code use some sort of modal editor. Everyone else thinks they edit code as fast, when in fact they don't. You don't even have a quick way to do what vim macros do. Hell most people have a tough time joining multiple lines, when in vim you can just use J.

[@loonathefoxgirl6375]

Vim acting is faster for editing but can be slower for writing. But visual vim (idk what its called. Vim gtk? Not sure) lets you do stuff with the mouse as well

[@yash1152]

> _"visual vim lets you do stuff with the mouse as well"_ @@loonathefoxgirl6375 the "visual vim" u are talking about is called gvim (graphical vim) - i have tried that, but it ain't a very good piece to use. i couln't figure out how to save settings in it. like font size or even what are the shortcuts to zoom in it

[@jonasak]

The creator of vim just died. Rip Legend.

[@willinton06]

Fireship really has become a learning brand

[@Amaraticando]

and a learning meme

[@lyvinx9104]

The guy who created vim just died. Rip

[@cindrmon]

fun fact: the 'hjkl' mapping for vim is surprisingly similar to the arrangement of arrows in Dance Dance Revolution, which is always typically Left, Down, Up, Right.

[@aravindpallippara1577]

Dance dance revolution came after vim btw And many early rogulikes including but not limited nethack, angbane, DCSS etc has the same key mapping

[@cindrmon]

@@aravindpallippara1577 interesting to know.. what do you think is the real origin to 'hjkl'? did it all come from vim? or somethin else entirely?

[@limitless1692]

@@cindrmon HJKL They keep your right hand in middle center of the keyboard. It is all about being in 100% control all the time. And having bleding edge efficiency

[@cindrmon]

@@limitless1692 yea true

[@JamieBainbridge]

Next: use DDR dance pad to control Vim

[@danielrdrigues]

I'm loving this series beyond 100 seconds, keep it up 👍 , VIM really make your produtivity spikes, like 10 seconds per day, it's incredible.

[@linuxrant]

no, it's not 10 seconds a day. it's 10 hours a day LOST in learning this whole vim-fu acrobatics and repeating commands and keybindings. Then it's 10 more hours a day lost on getting verbal revenge on others humiliating them for not using vim. 4 hours are left to play VimBeGood, Vim Adventures and Nethack and trying to understand why the J key has a touch typing marker on every keyboard and not the H key...

[@Faunarr]

@@linuxrant what you're describing to me sounds like a skill issue to me

[@theelite1234]

@@linuxrantYou do not understand! Using Vim makes you unique compared to those puny basic IDE fools! I gotta feel special to code efficiently, daddy issues seeping in.

[@SanilJadhav711]

@@linuxrantBro is spitting facts

[@muhammadadithyarickyichsan1193]

Next : Linux in 100 seconds and beyond

[@Fireship]

I have a variety of linux videos planned, too much to cover in just 1 video.

[@muhammadadithyarickyichsan1193]

@@Fireship wohooo i can't wait, i'm really excited about it 🔥

[@hermannabt8361]

Linux in 100 seconds or less

[@noahnolte7288]

@@Fireship How about Windows in 0 seconds?

[@muhammadadithyarickyichsan1193]

@@noahnolte7288 😂 blue screen

[@trustnt1337]

This video taught me the basics of Vim; and now using as my main text editor ever since!

[@programming4047]

Hi, you are in luck if you haven't progress further from basics because I recently made a Vim Tutorial Playlist. You can become Master of VIM by watching my playlist in 2x mode. I tried to cover most of the topics in smaller digestible chunks/parts. There's no shadow of doubt that using or at least getting your muscle memory of vim key bindings will go a long way. I myself learned vim when I was 22 years old. My first task was to master a text editor rather than any programming language lol It took me almost 6 months. Check my playlist, Hope you enjoy it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZrVhJaqltyIjLM

[@xx-cj6ew]

Small tip: you can also navigate to line numbers via {n}gg, where {n} is the line number you want to go to (ie. 5gg). Alternatively, gg goes to the first line, and G goes to the last

[@JakeDuthDev]

{n}G does the same as {n}gg I had to pause for a second when I read this because I've always done it with G

[@alphabasic1759]

The biggest advantage of vi/vim over every other editor is it's incredibly powerful text processing (which by the way you can apply from within a session or via a command-line if you're running via batch).

[@shivam.kumar.the.boy.]

Thanks for this awesome video about VIM. I was wondering why you've not made any video on this topic so far. But finally, it is here. 😃😃

[@logicshiFt]

I started trying to use vim emulation this week and 'L for right' is the best way to describe my experience so far. It's great when it works out, but damn some of these keybinds are alien

[@jjjj-ms1ln]

maybe he should have said L for Last

[@keshi5541]

I play videogames in the ijkl format so this confused me for a bit. I think that K will take me down and J will take me left. I will take me up. But L is the exact same so I never had trouble with that key. L is always right.

[@jonathanlevin7660]

I feel like remembering them relative to the up/down keys is easiest, if you already know those. (J/down is easiest because its your index finger and has the haptic bump on it) then H is *left* of those keys, and L is *right* of those keys.

[@keshi5541]

@@jonathanlevin7660 Wait haven't I seen you before??

[@jonathanlevin7660]

@@keshi5541 uhh, maybe? 🤷🏻‍♂😅

[@Satharus]

I'm a hardcore vim user and was literally just telling my friend that I need a text editor alongside vim which is better in YAML and XML editing, previously I never needed to edit files in those formats. I think that this configuration is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

[@erikreider]

I've been using Vim for the past 2 months and I'm really enjoying it 😄

[@kocraft137]

Love ur beyond 100 seconds section of your vids :D Your style of editing is superior

[@GoodVolition]

I've used Vim here and then. But just in general for the way I write code I've never felt using a mouse was a bottleneck. I understand people who like it though. There's a certain charm once you get into the swing.

[@brianevans4]

HOW DO YOU GET INTELLISENSE? i don't even type 50% of my code. I type the first two characters and intelliJ finishes off the line. Is this even possible with vim?

[@spfab3429]

@@brianevans4 Yes. At least with neovim there are a variety of LSP plugins available. The most common one is coc. It's not the most trivial thing to setup, but it works pretty well. But even vanilla vim has some basic completion functionality by using Ctrl-N or Ctrl-P keys, but it only matches raw words.

[@abdullahbinjahed6900]

@@brianevans4 yeh ... just use coc

[@sanjay_swain]

Yes it depend on workflow. When writing a python script it can be tedious to use mouse just for going to a line for indentation or simple fix.

[@nigeladams8321]

yeah, my brain is the bottle neck when it comes to code

[@charitarthchugh3988]

I like this beyond the 100 seconds approach. Please do more!

[@bakedbeings]

The plus register was a great tip, thanks! I use vim (in various editors) for most of my coding/typing and consistent system clip has been tricky 👍

[@thestopper5165]

It's *"+p* though - not just *+p* (for me it's remapped to leader-pp because that's faster and has no SHIFT, whereas "+p is two shifts). Likewise, leader-yy is "copy selection to the system register AND to vim's standard *"* register", and leader-yc is "copy last command-line to *+* and *"* " Remaps ftw. I hate it when I can't hit ESC-ciw in a text box to replace a word - even with vimium installed. EvilCorp's sites disable vimium by default, it appears.

[@DaraulHarris]

You should note that a and A are separate commands. I have met people that thought the command to append to the end of the line was shift+a, which it is not. An interesting side effect of learning the vim navigation keys that I've noticed is that you start to notice them all over the place. They work on Facebook and twitter for navigating your feed for example.

[@samuelwaller4924]

what do you mean, how else are you supposed to type "A"??

[@kacperfilipek8461]

@@samuelwaller4924 I'm not sure what Daraul meant but, interestingly, vim doesn't care what keys you type, but rather what character is being typed to the terminal. Yes, typically Shift+a will result in typing 'A', however if you happen to have Caps Lock enabled, and press the 'A' key without shift, vim would recognise it as user typing uppercase 'A', so it would appending to line ending. In this scenario using shift would actually result in regular mid-line appending. As a result, if you have different keyboard layout, you would use different keys to do the same thing in vim.

[@onelazynoob15]

I have been using Vim on my own, and while I wouldn't consider myself fluent, just being able to delete or yank lines without touching the mouse has made editing text files much faster.

[@oberguga]

shift+arrows -> del It works in every redactor.

[@fredrikmudas]

@@oberguga you mean ctrl shift

[@oberguga]

@@fredrikmudas no. Hold shift and use arrows to select text, then del it.

[@Biditchoun]

@@oberguga On vim it's (also ?) v + arrows to select, then y to copy, d to cut, s to delete (but it makes it enter insert mode too, so there is probably another way I never bothered to look up for).

[@GonzaloMassa]

I love being a developer and enjoy programming, that's why I don't want my fingers glued to the keyboard in order to squeeze my productivity, specially for my employee.

[@ivanf.8489]

Yah, totally. I love Vim, but not because it "increases my productivity". I don't want to be programming 100lines/minute. I want to have fun and do the things right

[@dansho3712]

Imagine beeing so fast at coding that you have to worry about the delay of touching your mouse... 😅 Edit: Wow thanks for all the likes!

[@deepanshu1955]

THIS.

[@PipBoy2300]

This.

[@aanchaltiwari9205]

This.

[@dansho3712]

@@deepanshu1955 sure! I love it too! I‘m using it because I am working a lot with embedded systems which do not have an UI. 😃

[@cilian8462]

i guess if you don't touch your mouse you will be much faster anyway

[@Mempler]

Literally everyone who opens vim for the first time: Opens google -> How to exit vim?

[@piecepaper2831]

thats why i use nano because the more familiar control c works

[@chairlovawitabat]

I almost cried the first time I accidentally vimmed into a file and couldn’t CTR-C out if it.

[@fabricehategekimana5350]

I didn't use google, I just turned off my computer.

[@Mempler]

@@fabricehategekimana5350 LOL

[@byakka]

If you press ctrl-c in vim it tells you how to quit.

[@clarkbrown2988]

NIce video! I also want to add, that if you practice blind typing, you can rebind movement keys from hjkl to your right hand home row (jkl;), which is much more convenient

[@diktomat]

That would mean losing ; for repeating the last movement, won’t do that for sure :)

[@The9TKitsune]

I have used vim fulltime as a cs student for the last two years, and didn't know about +p. Just goes to show vim is a bottomless learning experience.

[@minnerlas1730]

Do you know about gf or gd? Lol

[@dandandrorivolleyball]

My personal favorites: ciw - change inner word cs - change surrounding to ysiwtp - add surrounding html tag to word under cursor The last 2 require the surround.vim plugin

[@Chiny_w_Pigulce]

@@dandandrorivolleyball using vim for html is like shooting an ant with a tank

[@dandandrorivolleyball]

@@Chiny_w_Pigulce lol yeah haha. I dont write html as is though, i write React which uses jsx which is html-like syntax so its basically javascript, html and css (with styled-component library) all in one file :)

[@shutout951]

you can also use shift+insert. Do you know how to copy (ctrl+c) in vim without using the mouse? I don't

[@phillipm2368]

After this video I got some enthusiasm to dive in Vim. Took a Vim course and now I feel comfortable with it)

[@byakka]

Keep on learning! Whenever I feel like I know enough vim I come across something new that makes me go ‘I could be doing THAT this whole time??’ There’s so much gold in :help alone!

[@ColjaCarls]

Another pro-tip that I one used and since never went back: wether you use VSC or IntelliJ (and stuff): Disable "multi tab" so only one tab is displayed and learn the shortcuts that show you the last files you opened (CTRL + E for IntelliJ) and to search for files / classes. That somehow forces you to use the keyboard much more often, because using the mouse becomes so painful with just one tab. And in the end it boosts your productivity by A LOT! Thank me later 😉

[@AjaySingh-ex4qk]

Liked first and then Watched! Keep it up bro ; )

[@willd0g]

Thank goodness I learnt about the key repeat - cheers for addressing that first in the beyond segment

[@DanielEliasKana]

Love the 100 sec and stay tune format!

[@Frozander]

"you're no longer a soydev..." I know which channels you're watching lol

[@flamendless]

Which ones? What's soydev?

[@igorswies5913]

@@flamendless Luke Smith Please don't r/whoosh me

[@gtkall]

_bald man screaming to his selfie stick in the woods_

[@tsukiiiiiii]

@@flamendless From Urban Dictionary, here's the best explain about soydev I can conclude so far: Soydev are basically devs who use GUI for everything in their work, from editor to other things, and never touched to something like Vim. They are very common in the "Silicon Valley" (I'm not 100% sure about this).

[@letsgocamping88]

Default RuneScape character

[@256k_]

vim is indeed like an instrument, it'll take a long time to get good at it but once you do it becomes a really fun hobby.

[@zmdeadelius]

Super excited about learning Vim. Feels like it will make working with text and code much more energy-efficient! =)

[@mitch7w]

The pace of Fireship videos is sustaining me this week😍

[@crispyrice]

That extension is amazing. I only used the basic vim commands for when I needed to edit a file as sudo. Now I can use them in my main IDE too

[@crackwitz]

Install nano. Nobody should have to suffer vi/vim.

[@crispyrice]

@@crackwitz it's about having consistency in your keybinds. If I know how I can find and replace or multiselect in vim, I can do it quickly in every text editor that supports it

[@juliankandlhofer7553]

👏VIMTUTOR👏!! The best way to learn vim is by running 'vimtutor' in your terminal. Its a tool which will go over basically all of the built in features of vim by actually having you use them. When you're new to vim, doing this a bunch of times will familiarize you with the shortcuts very quickly. Cool video, but I feel like this has to be mentioned.

[@kurisu-makise]

I also like "boost your coding fu with vscode and vim" (google it; it's free)

[@CaptainWumbo]

Basically all the built in features of vim...... HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA YOU FOOL

[@juliankandlhofer7553]

@@CaptainWumbo care to explain?

[@ashrasmun1]

I'm happy that as an intermediate vim user, I still learned some stuff! Thanks!

[@Aranueth]

Hah, I wish the limiting factor of me releasing software was letting go of the mouse / not typing fast enough

[@dementedd]

note for 'r', you can do shift+r to continuously replace characters, instead of just replacing one

[@torphedo6286]

wow, awesome!

[@ark5458]

Thanks now i can't leave

[@beepst]

I’ve been using Vim in VS Code for almost a year now. I now can’t imagine coding without it.

[@basedbuddha666]

I just wanted 100 seconds, yet you still managed to make a 10+ minute video AND get me to comment on it.... You definitely understand your platform.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Vi and Vim have a lot more advanced commands, but 2 I wanted to point out since he was using I and Escape to get to the beginning of a line: Shortcut to go to the beginning of a line without entering Insert Mode: ^ (Shift-6 on a US keyboard). Shortcut to go to the end of a line without entering Insert Mode: $ (Shift-4 on a US keyboard).

[@daveqr]

Note ^ jumps to the first non-blank character, while 0 (zero) moves to the beginning of the line. Subtle difference.

[@isaacabhishek]

100 seconds prolonged to 12 minutes because he couldn't exit it.

[@heman57]

Downloaded Vim yesterday and Fireship uploads video today :)

[@Vifnis]

0:03 Keyboard is a AJAZZ K500 model sold by FirstBLOOD from China, it's a niche model (if I don't say so myself, highly recommended w/ Cherry MX Blue switches!)

[@0jas.]

The best thing about vim is that I can edit vimrc to create my own key bindings and install only those plugins that I really use in my day to day life. The worst thing about vim is that it takes weeks to find plugins that I want to use and learn how to create your own key bindings

[@rosslewerenz9360]

Vs code can do both of those things

[@0jas.]

@@rosslewerenz9360 Yes but I think it's the other way round. In Vim, there are no extra plugins installed and you have all the freedom to install only those plugins you will need. In Vs code, you have a lot of uninstallable features and telemetry trackers which slow down vs code in comparison to vim. Vim's load time is almost unnoticeable while it takes time to load vs code. On the other hand, it's very difficult to find good plugins for Vim, and sometimes they do not even exist. For example, there are hardly any good plugins for Java development on Vim. And it's not as easy as clicking the download button to install those plugins. But vs code has an excellent marketplace and it's quite easy to find extensions as their search option is quite good as well.

[@muhammadadibzaini]

If you install vim on your system, you can write 'vimtutor' as command and it has a brief but powerful introduction on vim.

[@theofernandez611]

This chanel is perfect. Thank you for all your videos , it helped me so much.

[@karasirarichard3358]

QUALITYYYY..... Love the senior developer cameos lately

[@MrSofazocker]

I think with these videos, you found the perfect balance between a short and a long video!

[@Growlboy1986]

Neovim (Vim) is by far the best editor ever existing!

[@dominikm1457]

Vscode with the VIM plug-in is also great.

[@SamualN]

even after getting over the barrier to entry of learning vim, I still feel more comfortable using regular controls in VS Code I will happily use (n)vi(m) if I only have access to a terminal though

[@TheEnde124]

What's the benefits of using neovim over vim?

[@vspecky6681]

@@TheEnde124 One big difference is that NeoVim has support for Lua plugins inbuilt. Vim does not have the same inbuilt, iirc you need to compile Vim with a certain flag to enable lua support. Other than that, Neovim uses ~/.config/nvim/init.vim instead of ~/.vimrc There's mostly no difference in functionality to an end user. Keybindings are the same, config directives are the same, etc. I personally use NeoVim.

[@jackkendall6420]

@@TheEnde124 Its default settings tend to be more sane and less obtuse to modern users. Vim tries very hard to keep the same experience as back in the 90s, so you need to change a lot of settings to make it user-friendly in 2020.

[@akosv96]

"Think about J as jumping down." Yep that sums it up for me

[@kuroikenshi9217]

I feel like i can love vim after this video, thanks :)

[@codeaperture]

Hey one question. Do Jeff's courses become downloadable? Also someone help if I subscribe quarterly I will access previous Content such as Vue/Flutter Firebase etc?..

[@robchr]

You can take emacs out of my cold dead emacs grip hands.

[@scullyy]

Quitting without saving and with saving being so similar, shivers my timbers.

[@ferchuu9]

no pain no gain, and effectively that guitar was crisp clean

[@combustionFreeEngine]

For some reasons i find vim editor is a bit harder to use than other editor but i really love its key bindings feature. Vscode + vim key binding = AWESOME.

[@fabioramatis2373]

I loved vim for so long to abandoned and use emacs full time

[@lenni-builder]

R.I.P Bram (If you didn't know that, he was the creator of Vim and died on 3rd August 2023)

[@yamen_]

Video: Vim In 100 Seconds [12mins] *The classic vim trap has defeated this series*

[@EidosGaming]

I tried to get into vim multiple times. The thing is, I'm way too used to VS code default editor, and I feel I would have to relearn a lot when I can already do very powerful stuff with the default editor (multi cursor, copy paste lines, replace all instances, etc)

[@thecodewarrior7925]

I’ve tried the VSCode Vim plugin, and to be honest I wasn’t impressed. IDEAVim is spectacular and works very well with the IDE. It even properly emulates Vim’s asinine regex syntax instead of just sticking JS regexes in vim commands. Yes, the syntax is objectively horrific, but I’m used to it, so the VSCode plugin tripped me up every time.

[@limitless1692]

EidosX I was like you, I knew Atom code editor inside and out, used it over 4 years... But after what happended to Atom, I decided to jump into VIM. You will see my point of view when VS Code will disapear and go under in the future... You will be in my shoes and see how it feels, and then you will get it why people learn VIM.

[@khayyamaurelius912]

That's true. Only way to properly learn vim is to say "fuck it" and strictly use it for several weeks.

[@torphedo6286]

the replace all syntax is pretty terrible, but copy-pasting lines and multi-cursor usually end up faster once you're used to the keybinds. I have keybinds set up to automate the shitty search-replace syntax, it's bound to "s" to replace the current word across the whole file.

[@andre_lug]

Great video as always. I think the side by side comparison between editing with Vim and without it was unfair. I can use vscode (or atom, or whatever) and leverage the platform's shortcuts as good as or better than with Vim. The example showed a (likely) beginner using a code editor, that is: using the mouse to select a portion of the text instead of using shortcodes that do exactly the same as in Vim. I must say I can't get my head around using vim nowadays, except to quick edits when I'm on a server, but I get it's a personal preference. There is no best option for everyone, but the one we are more comfortable with, right?

[@vif3182]

0:03 the keyboard is a Retro RGB keyboard sold by FirstBlood Gaming as Ajazz K500, comes in various Cherry MX keycaps. No bloated software is needed to use the RGB, it's straight plug-n-play out the box. Highly recommended.

[@vignitres]

I learned Vim about 2 years ago and I just can't code without it. Sometimes I wish everything had vim-like support.

[@brilliantchicken4873]

these videos are my crack

[@lekhakaananta5864]

❌Point mouse to your target word near-instantly with precision honed from years of hand-eye muscle memory ✅Spam up arrow until you get to your line, then spam right arrow until you get to your word The speed thing is mostly a myth. Some inputs are faster with a mouse, other a keyboard. Use the right tool.

[@diktomat]

That’s why the arrow keys / hjkl are actually not used that often in Vim. There are almost always better ways to precisely move the cursor where you want it.

[@RawkHawkRockin]

It's more about eliminating the hand movement of switching between keyboard and mouse.

[@lunarripper835]

Yoo this 100 seconds were awesome and nothing like 712 seconds tysm

[@mayurravindra9433]

Finally!! Most awaited❤🔥

[@chektek_]

I feel like in 2021, using Vim says "I started coding before you were born"

[@Zeioth]

I used to think that too. Try it and most likely you'll be surprised how much time (and machine resources) you can save.

[@byakka]

I scoffed at vim for years before I decided to watch how people actually use it. When it finally clicked I felt that it’s kind of crazy that its way of working with text didn’t grow beyond just one editor. Turns out vim is actually good enough for other editors to be converted with plugins to behave like it.

[@rosslewerenz9360]

@@byakka Or its because they want those developers to start using it, and having an extension that accomplishes that is beneficial.

[@ttst3]

4:13 kinda ironic that he would use the mouse instead of just pressing Enter to select the command, in a video about Vim...

[@meezookee8491]

I've switched to VSCode recently but I'd never be able to stop using vi key bindings. I cannot be helped about this. I still love Vim very much 🥰

[@rayanaraujo6898]

I swear this video was only 100seconds long, but then the dude came up and magically the duration increased

[@jothamsoboyejo4889]

All I've got to say is, Vim is a blessing

[@loldoctor]

I just started learning to code a few months ago and I always wondered why sometimes my VS Code would let me type and other times it wouldn't. Turns out the Vim extension was installed somehow, I have no idea how.

[@crackwitz]

Vim and all its emulations are malware.

[@jonathandavis8014]

one mode I like is replace mode using the 'r' key, since I can copy some code then use replace mode to make slight changes rather than repeating backspace.

[@drezee7173]

Omg I have been waiting for this!!!

[@BartTrojanowski]

I'm confused about +p. I've been using vim for 20+ years, and didn't know about this. + is documented as an equivalent motion to CTRL-M or (go down one line). For me +p goes downward one line, and then pastes the contents of "0 register. "+p is documented and pastes the system clipboard (on Linux). Am I missing something? Like a plugin?

[@Zw1d]

thing you're missing is probably microsoft's devil (vscode) i knew it wouldn't work over putty, but i tried anyway xD

[@ericheiner8183]

Great video! I feel you left out some very important keybindings. o/O to enter insert mode on a new line below or above the current one respectively. w/b to move forwards or backwards an entire word. / followed by text to search for a string. Very useful for jumping to classes.

[@matsbjnnes366]

My favourite ones would be gg - top of the file G - end of file Line number + G - Goto line

[@diktomat]

Also t/T, f/F, %, ,/;, [[/]]/[]/][, {/}, just for some more cursor movements off the top of my head. As soon as he told us to enable key-repeat I knew this would be no good :)

[@4ugus7in3]

I started using vim around 3 weeks ago and I'm loving it already. Might ditch IDEs soon.

[@CosasCotidianas]

Amazing channel. Amazing content. Love it.

[@mohanbarman9890]

You can also use CTRL + [ to go back to normal mode instead of mapping CAPS LOCK to ESC

[@byakka]

Better yet, use that after swapping Caps Lock and Ctrl

[@krishna2803]

00:50 is why i'm here

[@1chaplain]

You know.. what's stopping me from using my arrow keys? I can press the Home and End button to similar effect, and saving doesnt take that much time when you're spamming ctr + s every 5 seconds anyway

[@mrtbts]

usually i use nano instead of vim but this tutorial makes me wanna try using vim again

[@ark5458]

still can't say if he said "i am your god" or if he said " i am your guide"

[@jonathanpritchard6464]

Another unmentioned perk of vim (and other terminal based editors I suppose) is being able to easily edit files through remote sessions. This is invaluable for doing maintenance on servers. I have a bunch of different headless raspberry pis on my home network and a few different friend's networks that I administer completely through my terminal.

[@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2]

I respect and admire those who’ve put in the time to learn vim… but any good IDE has remote debugging/SFTP editing built in. For the rare occasions I haven’t had an IDE to hand, nano gets the job done with almost zero learning curve 🙃

[@jonathanpritchard6464]

@@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2 It has its limitations. I mostly use VSCode for my job editing code on a remote VM since I have to have a bunch of different files open at the same time. Vim keybinds are still nice though.

[@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2]

@@jonathanpritchard6464 I’m spoiled by JetBrains, but appreciate everyone has what works for them 👍 What’s your line of work?

[@detskysade2581]

Do you track my data or something? Every time I decide to learn something new you release a video about it the next day!!

[@GuilhermeTeixeira]

Such is such an amazing text editor.