The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide To Learn And Master Vim

In this video, I share everything you need to know to learn and master Vim as a beginner. Vim has changed the way I work as a developer over the past couple of years and my hope for this video is to help you really understand the ideas and concepts behind everything so that you can learn how to take advantage of this powerful editor too! Whether that be in a full fledged Neovim or Vim setup or as a plugin in an editor like VSCode. Hope you guys enjoy it!
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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:11 - Entering/Exiting/Saving
05:11 - Vim Arrow Keys (hjkl)
06:27 - Line Movements
07:11 - Moving To Chars In Line
08:58 - Word Movements
12:19 - Paragraph Movements
13:12 - Moving To Specific Lines
15:01 - Movements for '[', '(', '{'
17:05 - Moving Through Screens
17:34 - Moving/Scrolling Leaving Cursor In Place
18:04 - Search Movements
18:58 - Moving Through Jumplist
20:27 - Deleting Text (d)
22:32 - Changing Text (c)
23:09 - Repeating Changes with .
23:56 - Replacing & Deleting Chars (r and x)
24:38 - Copying/Yanking & Pasting Text (y and p)
25:52 - Changing Character Case (quick note ab Visual Mode)
27:36 - Text Objects (using i and a)
30:38 - Search & Replace
32:07 - Other Ways To Enter Insert Mode
33:02 - Conclusion
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[@joseanmartinez]

Hey guys, after uploading this video, I have sadly found out that Bram Moolenaar, the creator of Vim, has recently passed away. I am forever grateful for what he has built and the impact it’s had on my life as a developer 🙏🏽 Rest in peace, Bram.

[@danielstoddart]

I just heard the news. As someone who has used Vim my entire career, I was shocked because I wasn't even aware he was ill. We all owe Bram Moolenaar a debt of gratitude for Vim and everything he did to support both Uganda and the Vim community.

[@treequin]

I just started learning Vim a couple of days ago and this is by far the best video on it I've found. Last week I also watched your tmux video and it was immensely helpful too. The way you explain things and the way you structure your videos really make things clear to me. Thank you very much. ¡Muchísimas gracias!

[@danielvasquez3284]

Many many thanks! there are plenty of tutorials out there, but the way and the speed you explain is awesome. I found other tutorials hard to follow because they are just going too fast in typing. You really take the time to explain in a good manner. Many thanks again!

[@zhvn89]

This is an excellent video. There is a lot of resources with Vim reference. But that video helps to summarize everything. Thank you!

[@hsthast7183]

Exactly what I needed at this point of time 🙏🏼

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Hope you find it helpful!

[@juliosica2098]

Hey Josean, I recently found your youtube channel not long ago. I'm about to start my journey at OSU and I noticed that you also went to The Ohio State University. I appreciate the quality help and advice you have produce with your youtube channel and it motivates me to do my best in college.

[@joseanmartinez]

Really happy to hear that! I’m glad you’ve found my videos helpful! Good luck getting started at OSU, I learned a lot through my experience there, go bucks!

[@aletarg]

Excellent videos, very informative and well made. Congrats!

[@FrankPloegman]

Awesome guide! Thank you very much.

[@antonyanchev7112]

7:46 I think a better way to think about "t" is "till" because it moves till the character you want.

[@joseanmartinez]

I hadn’t thought of that! That’s a really good way to think about it, thanks!

[@akritworanithiphong]

Great educational video yet again 👏

[@N1mro8]

Really love this, thanks for helping out!

[@benjaminbank384]

One of the best videos on the internet Josean, thank you so much for creating and charing it. Really appreciate.

[@joseanmartinez]

Really appreciate that! Happy to hear you found it helpful!

[@eldercirillo554]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@zenbrandon]

It's thanks to you that I switched to Lunarvim as my main editor and installed Vim plugins on all my other editors. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your videos!

[@joseanmartinez]

That’s really awesome to hear! I really appreciate it and I’m glad the videos have been helpful!

[@gregpetrov6919]

Super cool! Many thanks!

[@andrefgallo]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@ayushkumar2436]

Best video i have ever seen on vim motions. kudos

[@JonnyJonvilleJonathan]

Happy to see you're back! Just started watching your channel this past week and was sad to see your last upload was 5 months ago, thought I had found a dead channel lol

[@joseanmartinez]

Sorry I was gone for a while, have been pretty busy with work, but hoping to get back to uploading more often!

[@maguilecutty]

Thank u to infinity and beyond! Not just another annoying tutorial about ricing ur neocon but FINALLY one on how to use it!

[@mmlvx]

I'm impressed that at 11:59 you included the 'ge' motion. I've been using vim a while, and only recently found out about 'ge' and 'gE', which are often very helpful. Another thing I've recently learned is 'gi' which jumps to the location where you most recently were in Insert mode, and puts you into Insert mode.

[@nasang7478]

Wow last week i was thinking that maybe i should learn vim this weekend and suddenly you just dropped this ❤️

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! I hope it helps you to get started!!

[@stoicfloor]

This is no better than for this video as a tribute to Bram. Bram you'll forever be missed.

[@asgeirtj]

Such a great tutorial!

[@gantushigsaruul2489]

Bro your thumbnail image is just perfect 👌you have this nice and unique aesthetics.

[@codingwithrendi]

wow thanks, this is so easy to understand, i do love neovim because this man :)

[@ElhusseinMourad]

Way to Go Josean 💪

[@zozephdev]

Thank you for this

[@inteliconn995]

Thanks!

[@jsjunior]

hey, Wellcome back,

[@TobiasFrei]

Great video. I've been using Neovim for years and didn't know them all (esp. text objects). So 🙏🤓

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome! Glad you found it helpful!

[@mkum2141]

Your neovim setup guide helped me move from vscode to neovim. I have been using neovim since and have made my own additions and changes to the config you provided. Thank you!

[@joseanmartinez]

That’s really awesome! Glad I could help!

[@dixztube]

Would you go back ? I get learning vim for text editing. I use it daily and know the basics but as a full code editor I just couldn’t justify the use vs code.

[@mkum2141]

​@@dixztube I dont feel the need to go back. Neovim and my plugins do everything that I could ever want from vs code and more! What does vs code have for you that neovim cannot replicate?

[@annakarolinafranz5946]

very good 👏👏👏👏

[@leroykylian4285]

te amo amigo aprendo mucho contigo rey

[@joseanmartinez]

Me alegro poder ser de ayuda!

[@satysin630]

Pretty crazy timing this coming out the same day we lose Bram 😢

[@ariunboldoyungerel6649]

Good god you are back! Where you have beeen

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Just been pretty busy with work, hoping to get back to uploading more often!

[@pope-pylinux-vi]

Thanks for the great video! You may want to remap :nohl to something less verbose (I use Ctrl+n in my VSCode Vim extension)

[@iamnoone3588]

hey man thanks for the vim from scratch guide you did before, it got me into nvim and am now enjoying learning programming again. just a tip for the new guys, just go with it. Force yourself to use it as your main and only editor then you'll be up in no time.

[@therollingambit5222]

Awesome high quality content! Just wondering if you ever tried lazygit and if so give a tutorial on it? :)

[@annakarolinafranz5946]

What is the shortcut to switch between the folder side tab and the code tab?

[@iayushhb]

finally , thanks for NOT quitting..

[@joseanmartinez]

hahaha yes I haven’t quit! I’ve just been really busy these last couple of months. Hoping to get back to uploading more.

[@iAbhilashJena]

How do you get the filename as a tab (with an X)? I did follow your other video on how to setup Neovim on Mac but, when I open a file with nvim, I don't see the tab.

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! I just added that to my config, it wasn’t in the video, you can use the bufferline plugin and in the setup options set the “mode” option to “tabs”.

[@vladimirpoma4452]

awesome video, I've a question teacher, what if I want to replace a word inside a function or event inside a for loop, with %s/word/replaceWord/g will do in the whole file, but is there a way to indicate to replace just in specific range?

[@Subbeh2]

You can use visual mode to select the lines and then run :s (without %) to change within the selection

[@vladimirpoma4452]

@@Subbeh2 thanks mate!!! really appreciate it.

[@akshitgupta4749]

hey you are back

[@joseanmartinez]

Yes! Been really busy the past few months, hoping to get back to uploading more often.

[@akshitgupta4749]

@@joseanmartinez awesome bro👍

[@reedamranjan6367]

Hey @Josean, g+f shortcut not working in your neovim setup can you check if something has change after any update

[@joseanmartinez]

I’ll have to look into that, I’ve transitioned away from lspsaga to a simpler setup, hoping to make some future updated videos on some changes I’ve made. Thanks for letting me know!

[@reedamranjan6367]

@@joseanmartinez It will be great if can share that transition as it can help a lot of people like me who are following your videos and working with vim , thanks for the fast reply btw

[@vohuynhvinh]

hi, Which the app name to record desktop?

[@phuc-party]

hey, did anyone here actual setup configuration for graphql successfully? I can't make graphql Lsp work?

[@driden1987]

Loved the colorscheme, what is it ?

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! It’s called nightfly. You can find it here: github.com/bluz71/vim-nightfly-colors

[@driden1987]

Thanks @@joseanmartinez !

[@minutaggio]

Waaaaait a moment, did we meet in a YCombinator company interview in the past?

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! I’ve never been to YCombinator so you might be confusing me for somebody else, nice to meet you though!

[@PavelMalinov]

Rip Bram

[@smjonas8616]

Rip

[@s-xj6ju]

please make an updated video champ from scratch

[@squalazzo]

Mr Vim himself passed away these days, with his last ESC :wq

[@vinodbabu2965]

make a video on how to use neovim as beginner

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Thanks for the feedback! Are you referring primarily to configuring/setting up Neovim?

[@vinodbabu2965]

yes sir @@joseanmartinez

[@SS-wl7od]

great video but the amount of time i will spend on perfecting is not worth it, instead i will go with the tools which can get my job done.

[@nanashi7726]

It is not vim, it is neovim. Actually, they should be distinguished. It may seem like an accusation, but the two are becoming quite different in terms of internal APIs, etc.

[@joseanmartinez]

Neovim and Vim are definitely different, but when it comes to this specific video, all of the concepts apply to both of the editors and almost all of the concepts will apply to using Vim as a plugin as well.

[@seshadribasava2801]

Still waiting for that lazy setup you promised me ;) @josean

[@joseanmartinez]

hahaha I have to check lazy out, haven’t switched from packer yet, will be looking into it somewhere down the line