30 Vim commands you NEED TO KNOW (in just 10 minutes)

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We've got a slew of shorts on Vim tricks but in this episode, we're going hard in the paint with 30 Vim commands you NEED TO KNOW. In ten minutes, your neckbeard will grow faster than ever before.
Let's get after it.
Chapters:
0:00 - intro
1:00 - search and replace
3:30 - visual higlighting yanking, registers
6:20 - special registers
8:20 - macros!

[@typecraft_dev]

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[@23luski23]

/g in sed command means global in line, not in entire file. So without /g replacement will be done for the first occurrence in each line where we have matching

[@zerdofish9989]

Indeed! What makes it global is the %

[@eivindsulen8516]

@@zerdofish9989 when i first learned this i realized you can select lines in visual mode and run substitute on just this range of lines. :'

[@matiasbpg]

To add to the %, this is really a range, that means the whole buffer. Most commands accepts a range at the beginning and there are a few shortcuts for ranges: :x,y. from lines x to y : .,y '.' means the current line so it's current line to y :'

[@silak33]

Thought the exact same thing XD

[@zerdofish9989]

Thsnks! I didn't know this.

[@WhiteRickRoss]

v + i + w + y (to copy the selected word) can be done with y + i + w (yank inside word)

[@andreirost4696]

Or if ur at the beggining of a word just yw

[@typecraft_dev]

🚨 I misspoke!! 🚨 Typically with Vim videos, I tend to do them from top-of-my-head knowledge. For some reason, I always think of the "substitute" command as "sed". "s" is substitute, not "sed" sorry for any confusion, hope you like the video!!

[@wh7988]

thank u daddy, took the vim pill because of u

[@user-wy1xm4gl1c]

awesome video, thank you for the macro ;) all devs should love it

[@RobertGottlieb]

Another way I've seen this done is :0,$s/find/replace/

[@ivanheffner2587]

Did you know you can append to a named register? “xY will yank the current line into register x. “XY will append the current line to register x. This lets you build up a register to paste later. For example: you want to grab a couple lines of code from several locations and paste them into a new function, you can gather them all into that register and then do one paste when you have them assembled. Also, because a macro is just executing a register, you can edit a macro by pasting the contents of the register, modify it, then yank the new macro back into the register ready to run the modified macro. One last item: a macro can call another macro or even itself. Writing recursive macros to update thousands of lines can be quite satisfying, but is most useful if making a regex substitution is just too difficult or not quite fully repeatable.

[@marcuswest4572]

Sounds like a video in itself

[@CoClock]

Macros are executing registers!!!!?!

[@ivanheffner2587]

@@CoClock 🤯 right? Try it yourself. Record macro x qxcawfooq Paste the contents of register x “xp

[@silak33]

On the subject of upper case registers. If you record to an upper case register you will append to what is in that register rather than replace it. That is very useful if you forget something :)

[@eugeneponomarov7429]

Omg, this is super powerful!

[@realbyte2048]

Thanks moustache man, I needed this.

[@code-island]

bring the part 2 with more 50 commands

[@typecraft_dev]

You got it

[@holdthat4090]

will toggle between the current and previous buffers, you can mash it to go back and forth kinda like harpoon. Also lets you go backwards in the jump table if you wana navigate back a line or two or three etc.

[@willernst]

And the pairing to travel back forward in the jump table (use "o"ut and "i"n as the mnemonic).

[@priyanshukatuwal]

I am a beginner, I hated VIM at first and I told myself I would never touch it again. But I kept learning things little by little. Your channel helped me a lot, it has made me fall in love with VIM. I am also following your playlist to learn to make my own Neovim config. Thanks nerd!

[@danks4]

I’ve been using nvim for over a year and learned multiple things from this video. Thanks so much!

[@sebastianalfaro1887]

Best vim learning serie in KZbin! BTW loved your Patagonia t-shirt, cheers from Argentina

[@jamesaffleck4192]

Great tips! With macros you can do @@ to replay last played macro. Also while recording a macro,.you can also replay that macro inifonitely until vim.encounters an error. I.e. for your example qah //start recording into h i"E", // addquotes around word, then add comma @h //.start replaying entire macro recursively, i.e. this will keep replaying the 'h' macro until error encountered. A couple more register tips. Add to init.vim or .vimrc set clipboard unnamedplus //Always yank/paste from system clipboard. One register tip: "_d //delete without overwriting default register In visual mode.ypu can do P to paste without overwriting. Here's a couple other honorable mentions. Use the global command to delete all lines containing search. :g/search/d And its inverse (delete lines not containing search) :!/search/d

[@mischavandenburg]

Hi! I’m a content creator in the same space, and I really appreciate the quality of your videos and the work it requires to create them. This video is a great guide for beginners and showcases the power of vim editing in such an effortless way, Keep up the good work!

[@typecraft_dev]

Thanks!!

[@johnathonme]

OMFG WTH!! I've been using vi then vim and now nvim for 30 years and I didn't a know a couple of these commands and the diff between the registers. Omg!! Thanks loads for the video @typecraft and love all the other comments from folks with good tips, vi just never stops giving

[@PalashBackup]

Although purists will say you only need tutor, I think these style of videos are more encouraging, especially for newbies.

[@tenminuteamateurhour]

Thanks, learned some new things! You can also create an autocommand to briefly highlight whatever you're yanking. Then you don't need to go into visual mode first.

[@afzalhussain5728]

Great video, as always! One quick note - ":s" stands for "substitute" in command mode.

[@typecraft_dev]

ugh you're totally right! (and not the first to point this out). With vim stuff, I tend to do this from the top of my head. for some reason "s" has always been "sed" in my head :)

[@MR_Stick]

Some of these are really a life saver, great video.

[@RuanBekker]

This was exactly what I was looking for! I've been using vim for the last 10 years, but ive always used the basics and what I have to use to get the job done. This is going to take me to the next level. Your videos are amazing, and I thank you for them!

[@submariner_42]

Impressive (both the commands and the moustache)

[@typecraft_dev]

Thanks!

[@kevinrineer5356]

Thanks for the stuff about registers. Ive been heavily using vim for 3 months and hadnt come across the need for it, but i can see where it will be useful

[@SteeleMan223]

Just started the neovim journey this week. This was very helpful

[@joergw]

very helpful, thanks I really like your tutorials

[@MattRobinsonDev]

Another great video as always

[@mraaroncruz]

Long time vim user and never knew about * I always get value out of your videos. Thanks a lot!

[@xiaoliu6973]

Great video. I have learned new things.

[@wiseskeshom4673]

Thank you so much, I learned a lot from this video.

[@cristhianjhlcom]

Hey man I just found your channel and I think is amazing! Thank you 💯💯

[@binh1298ify]

Thanks man, I learned some new things

After selecting something, performing any change, you can go elsewere and press 1v to repeat the same selection pattern.

[@ginger-viking]

Great video, thanks!

[@Viken43]

Macros ftw thanks typecraft 😊

[@Laggedskapari]

Will love a video specially for nvim macros…..and as always Thanks Nerd!

[@TheLANBeforeTime-uo9ph]

not sure what I can learn from it but I know there will be. Liked, bookmarked for later watching! Peace out.

[@sirka0s]

Nice video! What is this prompt you are using btw, looks gorgeous!

[@beastade]

You could replace selection with cgn command. If you repeat it with dot then it replaces the next occurrence..

[@chandraprakashdarji]

Great video

[@marcuswest4572]

Great content.If there was a handy file, we could practice & learn simultaneously

[@kashperanto]

Also for macros, once you run @h (or whichever register you're using) you can just type @@ to run it agan. I usually do a ballpark guess, like 5@h, and then just hit @@ to finish the last few lines. Macros also work with search, so it is much more capable than just editing big contiguous sets of lines.

[@sirhopcount]

Excellent video 👍

[@typecraft_dev]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@SecretAgencyOfGaming]

Thanks nerd! You taught me a lot!

[@datacentrico]

Awesome dude. I moved to NVIM for data science just by watching your content. I't been a wild ride.

[@typecraft_dev]

Welcome brother

[@CHAP_SEC]

My mind has been blow. I know vim/nvim is powerful, didn't realise just how amazing ot could be. Admittedly, i wont be able to remember all of this, but i will probably start using nvim :). Then slowly learn these as i need them

[@marcodem3]

I used vi for 35 years now and I got quick and efficient, vi under my skin. I didn't miss anything until now I know what i could have missed :-) Thanks a lot!

[@rphyt]

I don't mean to be pedantic but :s stands for :substitute not sed. Also in that command the '%' sign is used to tell :substitute to work on the entire file. The /g option, instead, means operate globally on the line.

[@blocSonic]

Thanks. You rock!

[@typecraft_dev]

awwww :)

[@NilEoe]

%s already targets the whole file, the /g (global) replaces every occurrence of the word, not just the first of every line Super helpful video though! Didn’t know how to use registers, thanks a lot!

[@roniqueh96]

oh and another tip with macros that's powerful is to combine it with the norm command in visual mode. so instead of 5@a to perform the macro for the following 5 lines, I'll just make a visual selection of the lines I want to apply the macro to, hit colon then 'norm @@' to apply it on each line. similar can be done with the dot command, 'norm .' to perform the last change on every line (i remap this to g. )

[@zerdofish9989]

I think that :s is for substitute and not sed. Not an important detail but I think it's better to clarify so then when invoking the :help command one looks for :help substitute. Thanks for the great content!

[@ayeayepost]

Here is a super-duper pro tip (blazingly fast and free as GPL3) "Use Alt key with commands in INSERT mode" this is the foundation of the forgotten typing art, revive it to unleash full power of the modal text editor :)

[@amandin.]

the special clipboard register that is linked with the system clipboard is a + on windows, too.

[@zandivx]

As in Vim/Neovim it is very important whether a letter is capital or not, it might confuse people if you display capital letters in the overlay in instances where in fact they are not capital

[@user-me8dk7ds7f]

you can press '#' in order to select previous occurrence of a word, '#' the complementary of '*'.

[@windowsrefund]

Your videos are addicting. Being a big fan of motions, I often wonder why people typically use ciw to change a word rather than ce?

[@roniqueh96]

because ciw doesn't care where in the word your cursor is. ce = ciw only when your cursor is at the beginning of the word

[@windowsrefund]

@@roniqueh96 Yes, I remembered this later that day and couldn't agree more. It only makes sense in the event you're on the first character of the word.

[@silak33]

Should be mentioned the 0-9 registers doesn't quite work as you mentioned here. 0 will always contain the last yanked text, but 1-9 will only be populated if the text deleted is bigger than one line.

[@anthonycoutinho102]

Thanks nerd, congrats about the new sponsor

[@kodder]

Linux has the + and * registers for the system. Since it has two different clipboards active at the same time usually. One is the one you use with ctrl+c/v and the other one is highlight and middle click.

[@mascapt4231]

Nice video, just one thing : Register copy commands ("+y") on the system clipboard will not work on some Linux system with wayland. You can reproduce this problem on a fresh install of fedora 40 . The reason ? -> no Wayland clipboard, you can fix it with your package manager in your linux distro , (Red Hat land : sudo dnf install wl-clipboard). This is pretty bad to not have that by default. It is better on any system to check clipboard support before trying to do that.

[@srt_]

that yellow light is causing camera to change focus. kind of distracting. BTW, awesome episode. Learnt some new things.

[@midjhelins8383]

excellent!

[@SamSepiol127]

actually, I don't remember if is actually my own config cause I set it up a few years ago, but for me "%p paste the absolute path(plus the name)of the file I'm currently in and imoo is kinda useful if you need to paste that to variables and stuff. Great video btw

[@ivanheffner2587]

This is a built-in for vim (maybe even OG vi). It pastes from the % register, which contains the current buffer’s filename.

[@timjames4306]

Please also make a video on how to config nvim with Django

[@Cleanblue1990]

Finally i know how to exit vim

[@MatiasBaldanza]

Outstanding. I have a questions. The % register, in my mac, holds the full path and filename. How do I access just the filename and extension without the absolute path? (Been looking for it, but can't see if this is a setting or I have to look elsewhere.)

[@himquantum]

Thank you, Nerd

[@Dainslief31]

Thanks Nerd

[@user-me8dk7ds7f]

Is there any way to configure vim buffer font, without setting the font of the terminal? I mean to have two different fonts for vim and the terminal that runs vim.

[@thayto_dev]

the `*` blew my mind

[@ivanheffner2587]

You should also try #. It has the same thing as * but in the opposite direction. But remember: n and N on according to the direction of your previous search.

[@Lars-ce4rd]

"I assume that you know some basic things like hjkl" Then proceeds to explain hjkl lol

[@KevinNitro]

Hi my lord. Your terminal status line style is very cool. I love catppuccin :) Could you share your config? I would really appreciate that

[@yasengo]

How to solve issue when installed packages modules are being shown in suggestion while jsx module is not suggesting .

[@ericlindell3777]

Fantastic vid! Instant click.

[@w01dnick]

8:43 or use %w (in this case)

[@rafa6536]

Don't know how to get CSS classes project wide autocompletion and HTML syntax highlighting in Twig files, I gave neovim a chance but I lost :P

[@w01dnick]

You don't use relative line numbers, do you? A lot of people recommend them but TBH I don't feel comfortably with them for some reason.

[@typecraft_dev]

Yeah never used them

[@heroclix0rz]

I'm just wondering what's about to happen in 10m that will require I know vim so well.

[@Zipperheaddttl]

man it really feels like you are trying to channel Prime from the bottom of you toes. Thanks nerd.

[@jaddadzakaria]

we are all friends in this community, much love man 💜

[@devbysojay]

hello sir , "LanguageTree:for_each_child() is deprecated, use LanguageTree:children() instead. :help deprecated Feature will be removed in Nvim 0.11" this is occurring in my neovim 0.10 . please ! can you fix it

[@hey_james]

Is the moustache a requirement now if you have a developer youtube channel?

[@gjermundification]

9:48 Then again you forgot to `:set nu rnu` what is the use of being able to do stuff n times without rnu?

[@glavataa]

Going into Pane mode, Ctrl+P, then hjkl moves around, ESC when done

[@simonlauer9379]

thanks nerd!

[@mahirabbas3700]

thanks nerd. ill go get a brilliant subscription.

[@saeedxgholami]

It doesn't matter when, I always laugh when I hear LEADER....

[@miron5733]

Why not just use clipboard = "unnamedplus"? 7:30

[@typecraft_dev]

You totally can. Just wanted to show off how it happens under the hood

[@Dorian781227]

Can someone explain to me why this man has only 37k sub ?

[@INFClockBlock]

i used vim cause no more mouse but no one talks about vertical movement

[@lieksu]

Video is helpful. Going in and out of focus is a bit disturbing tho.

[@PetrenkoAndrii]

I am first to comment! Ha ha! Nice video!

[@typecraft_dev]

You did it!

[@imnotapartygoer]

How do i exit

[@MarcoAntoniotti]

Isn't M-x evil enough? 🤔

[@KevinNitro]

Ouh are you using Fedora or Arch my lord nerd?

[@typecraft_dev]

Arch (btw)

[@zeocamo]

What was the s in %s again?? It is not the set command 😁

[@typecraft_dev]

substitute :)

[@zeocamo]

@@typecraft_dev gold star

[@ivanheffner2587]

Technically the command is :s, which takes a range. % is the range; the equivalent of 1,$ (first line to last line).

[@zeocamo]

@@ivanheffner2587 we all know that, we was talking about the s

[@yaarooruvan4310]

camera focus is not good sometimes btw thanks nerd!

[@typecraft_dev]

OMG I KNOW it was so annoying. Fixed it though. I recorded this BEFORE the last two videos, its better now

[@BlackwinghacksBlogspot]

Editor, add more tattoos 😈😈😈

[@TheGogiu]

Thanks nerd

[@peterkois4858]

Super video, but please turn off that autofocus or move hands less😂

[@typecraft_dev]

Ugh I know! It’s fixed now at least

[@sanib.8818]

Vim tutorials on youtube are great, except for one thing. if you want to follow along.. and try the same commands and make sure you are competent in both muscle memory and thinking speed, you need the same file to work on as the one the person is demonstrating on in the video. .

[@Cool-Linux-Penguin]

Noo I am 8 hours late.