Vim Text Editor Basics - How to Use Vim on Linux / Mac / Unix (Beginners Guide on Ubuntu 20.04)

[@SavvyNik]

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0:00 - Intro and About Vim 1:34 - Open First File with Vim 2:15 - Install Vim instead of using Vi 2:53 - Navigating a File with Vim 3:30 - Inserting Text into a file with Vim 4:40 - Undo Past Changes in Vim 5:17 - Quit out of Vim 6:30 - Save Changes to file using Vim 8:15 - Create a New File using Vim 9:00 - Open Another File using Vim to make edits 9:51 - Search for Specific Line in Vim 10:24 - Search for Specific Text in File using Vim 11:50 - Delete Lines in a File using Vim 13:21 - Recap of all operations/commands used in Vim w/ Explanation 16:00 - Using vimtutor command for more help

[@BeansEnjoyer911]

Your tutorials are amazing. Subbed. Helped so much as I've been learning Linux

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome to hear! Glad you found the tutorials helpful and thanks for subbing.

[@ComsicQuestGG]

Thanks! Setting up a OpenVPN server; and needed to edit the server config file but couldn't for the life of me remember how to insert/edit a file. Spent way too much time in a Windows enviro forgot all my Linux.

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome to hear!! No problem, glad you found the video helpful.

[@khareckless6769]

thank you! I was so overwhelmed at 1st and you made it very simple and fun

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome, Np!! Glad you enjoyed the video =)

[@Slavolko]

Thanks. Never used vim before, so this was a nice intro.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad I could help

[@lubnafathima7517]

Thank you so much for this tutorial MUCH NEEDED ONE!!!!

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome!!

[@rawindrareddy5578]

Wow amazing You made it so easy man Thank You So Much ❤️

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome 😊

[@ummatilawan5797]

Very informative. thank you so much for this video.

[@k_usuan]

Awesome and so smooth and precise

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you liked it

[@kingstonxavier]

Cool post and very helpful. Is there a way to edit the read-only files and save as a new file?

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you liked it. Try using :w /path/where/you/access/to/write

[@avishekpdsyouthoob9083]

OMG A DREAM! A VIM TUTORIAL VIDEO

[@SavvyNik]

@AvishekPD's YouThoob - Glad you enjoyed it ^^

[@omnimathic]

Amazing video!

[@rupalijindal5680]

Thanks for the detailed video👍

[@SavvyNik]

No problem, glad you liked it!

[@vijayalaxmisr4806]

Thanks a lot, you explained it very nicely

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it was helpful! Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

[@DonTequilon]

Thank you for the easy explanation

[@SavvyNik]

You are welcome!

[@nikolasg4210]

Thank you very good tutorial

[@PurposefulThinkers]

Thank you so much for making this video!!!

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful.

[@danielcastillovillamarin3107]

Amazing video!!!! Thank you so much!

[@SavvyNik]

You are so welcome!

[@Wongmc644]

Great intro to video. Thnks

[@SavvyNik]

No problem

[@oraziofindus4675]

Thank you for this tutorial, awesome work!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you enjoyed it! You're welcome =)

[@Nepal071]

Thank you for making this video!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it was helpful! You're welcome!

[@erebusparcae]

thank you i needed this...

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome, no problem.

[@신상원-t4j]

thanks a lot. i'm exactly in the same situation u mentioned. it was a lot of help.

[@SavvyNik]

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[@wldtrbls]

Perfect, thank you :)

[@SavvyNik]

No problem 😊

[@roauf-]

How to like a youtube videos twice? cuz I wanna do it to ur video, thank u so much bro for the great simple explanation

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you enjoyed it! You're welcome :)

[@roauf-]

@@SavvyNik thank you, I'm looking forward for more of your videos

[@norah5073]

The best explaination

[@SavvyNik]

Thanks

[@sixtuscardinal2581]

Helpful tutorial....Thank You!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it was helpful! No problem.

[@davidreyes5946]

Nice tutorial! Really helpful. New sub :)

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome to hear!! Glad you enjoyed and thanks for the sub =)

[@joellopescunhadesouza8617]

Thank you very much! It helped me a lot

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it helped! You're welcome.

[@meergoedemuziek]

Thank you so much for this content ⭐⭐⭐

[@SavvyNik]

No problem

[@codemagic2487]

thanks a lot! very helpful for me !

[@SavvyNik]

You are welcome, glad you liked it!

[@vipulkanojia3080]

thanks for this tutorial

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome 😊

[@TheEspikes]

You are a cool tutor

[@ozonewagle]

Thank you so much.

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome!

[@cameronribeiro9660]

Try adding this: Think people want to see: Create a python port scanner to run in terminal.

[@ulrichsamosii6058]

Great job!

[@greghenderson1538]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it was helpful! You're welcome.

[@user-ou5jn7fj8o]

Hi, is there any way we can go to a specific column in the line? Say i want to go to 15th char in a line, is there a command i could use?

[@SavvyNik]

Try n| where n is the number in the line you want to get to or if you want to go to a specific line in the doc you can do :n where n is is the number of the line you want to get to

[@azkaamin3425]

really helpful tutorial

[@SavvyNik]

Thanks

[@narasimhaswamy7986]

Very useful video

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you liked it

[@danielcastillovillamarin3107]

Hey man, thank u for the video, it was so useful to me! May you please share with me that background image? Greetings!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you think so :) pixabay.com/videos/hello-world-pc-retro-monitor-28320/

[@raedsalih5146]

Thanks

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome!

[@sauravdas5325]

Do you use vim daily or use vscode?

[@SavvyNik]

@Saurav Das - For most small edits and programming that I know will be contained all in one/two files I stick to vim. Otherwise, I'll use vscode if it's a large project or brand new so I can get the structure going properly.

[@abhishek-xv5ow]

lots of informations :)

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you think so!

[@mxibarr27]

While in normal mode if I type a command more then once it starts logging all of my keystrokes at the bottom of the page and the commands won't process. For example if I look for a specific letter with /w and I type n to go next after my first two n it will start logging all of the n I type and won't go next. Might be a noob questions, but appreciate any help

[@kingstonxavier]

I encountered this issue E212: Can't open file for writing while saving the file. I had to open open the file with sudo to get the file saved.

[@gouravkumarshaw5467]

gg for going top and shift +g to go to the bottom

[@CheezyDibbles]

out of my windows habit i pressed "ctrl+s" it freezed VIM. i had to close terminal to open up another one. what should i do in this case?

[@gouravkumarshaw5467]

esc +:x to save and exit

[@NJ-rx2dn]

Does vim recognize different extensions? I mean like if I name a file as something.cpp, will it recognize it as a C++ file? Also I saw a list.sl file. What is a .sl file? I searched but came across a .sln file.

[@SavvyNik]

It does not have syntax highlighting for most types of extensions, but you can add plugins in for various extensions (which will give you that support). A *.sl file is something I just made up. The extension doesn't need to be one that's already been used.. (I figured sl would stand for simpleList which was a database for a program that I wrote in one of my past C++ tutorial videos).

[@NJ-rx2dn]

@@SavvyNik So we can make up extensions as well? That's something I didn't know... Also, if I write a code and save it as a .cpp file can I execute it with the text editor or should I use the terminal for that? Also would the permissions when I do the ls -l in the terminal show executable also? Hope you can understand me 😅

[@SavvyNik]

@@NJ-rx2dn Sure you can make your own extensions up. Any text editor that saves a file can usually do this just save as filename.whateverext although it won't be recognized by the system. If you want to edit a cpp file through a text editor that's perfectly fine. I use sublime text editor sometimes for this. I'm not sure what you mean by executable permissions.. a cpp file doesn't need executable permissions because it cannot be executed until it has been compiled.

[@NJ-rx2dn]

@@SavvyNik Oh I meant when we do a ls -l in the terminal we get a long list and in the first column it shows the different rwx permissions available for the user and others right? That's what I meant by permissions.

[@SavvyNik]

@@NJ-rx2dn yes that does show you the list of permissions. I'm not sure if it'd show executable or not. I wouldn't think so unless you chmod.

[@analysis092]

Sir my vim is opening in terminal, I want to open separately. How can I do that ??

[@kartikthakur4852]

how you did that hello world wallpaper thing?

[@SavvyNik]

I made a video on this application that allows for live wallpapers here's a link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2qclYNul5p9e6M just make sure to destroy the like button for me =)

[@kartikthakur4852]

@@SavvyNik thanks for such a fast reply 🙏

[@SavvyNik]

@@kartikthakur4852 No problem

[@tinbilltv4141]

I have a problem with the colon, it won't work on my mac.

[@lechsiz1642]

hardly in the same league, but micro looks a bit easy. heck, even word grinder. why doesn't vim change many of its keybindings to standard ones now? There must be 15+ standard keybindings that work in all OSs, web browsers, and 30+ in all Linux.

[@PeacefulMusic-l7o]

Redo command?

[@gouravkumarshaw5467]

:q to exit without save

[@mr.b7277]

Completely disliked vi/vim annd preferred nano until I watched this video. Thank you!

[@SavvyNik]

You're welcome! Glad to hear it :)

[@Hyodoh7]

When searching for something, I found you can use "n" to go forward and "b" to go back. Thought that could help someone else too

[@SavvyNik]

Yes, good mentions! Thanks Nate.

[@siik-ghostface]

I can't open wordlist1.txt file with text editor or with vim but I can however open the file with terminal to see the content inside the file. I believe there's something wrong and missing that is causing that problem preventing the OS and file from successfully and smoothly opening with vim and text editor to view content. Can you or anyone here on KZbin do quick investigative look? You can go to www.Kali.org then downloads, find VBox appliance(2020 release version) version, get 64bit version. Password and username by default is kali/kali instead of root/toor. Well let me know if you looked inside and found the same issue as I came across with opening generates word list file. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... Ok I find out that crunch tool is causing this problem to make the generated files to not work with vim and text editor, so they won't work with another because of crunch tool it seems. If I do a right click in the /home/Kali/Desktop/Word list directory in file manager and create empty file document and say name it wordlist6.txt ..... what will happen is when I double click on wordlist6.txt file, it successfully opens up text editor within 4 seconds like it should but if I create that same kind of file with crunch then it will not successfully open with vim or text editor. So the crunch tool is the culprit problem here. I think it's making them unsupported or corrupted. But yeah can still look into this and find a fix solution.

[@SavvyNik]

@Dimitri Esprit The Hermit - Thanks for posting your in depth issue and what you ended up finding! I'm sure this will help people who run into a similar issue. Not sure how it has corrupted the file. Usually vim is capable of even opening up executables/binary files which are unreadable but still displays characters. Interesting indeed.

[@siik-ghostface]

@@SavvyNik it probably just generated as unsupported file not corrupt. But I just thought of smarter idea about crunch I discovered a person can do with crunch. I read that not only can you send and generate wordlist to the terminal screen or generate a wordlist file to folder into your desktop.....but 3rd optionally to another PROGRAM (Web browser counts as program yes?!) So a person doesn't have to worry about wasting storage space on his Linux OS device(sda1) so instead it goes to web page, into a file there... basically to and within web browser. You get understand what I am saying. Now I just have to look how to send a wordlist to the web browser from crunch tool terminal.

[@SavvyNik]

@@siik-ghostface - Interesting idea. Basically a cloud backup solution for Crunch =D

[@siik-ghostface]

@@SavvyNik yes then a person should be able to run that file that's from the cloud with connection and using password cracking tool in terminal.

[@SavvyNik]

@@siik-ghostface - Pretty cool idea. Good luck!

[@HyperionBadger]

Have a big fat subscribe from me.

[@SavvyNik]

Awesome to hear! Thanks for the sub :)

[@gouravkumarshaw5467]

esc u for undo

[@johnd942]

Why use a BLACK SCREEN if you are typing light-coloured fonts? So Dumb!

[@nramdec201987]

too much-unwanted talk

[@SavvyNik]

I guess I like talking ;)

[@analysis092]

Sir my vim is opening in terminal, I want to open separately. How can I do that ??

[@analysis092]

Sir my vim is opening in terminal, I want to open separately. How can I do that ??

[@piyushnaithani7689]

It opens in terminal. To open it separately may be u need to install some desktop app.