What Vim Is and Why You Should Learn It

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[@LinuxTrainingAcademy]

What's your favorite vim feature??? (I'm a huge fan of macros!)

[@saulaxel]

The gn object

[@NicosLeben]

:q

[@RobertGrimm]

Regular expressions!

[@johnclasson6691]

How I can make vim execute commands based on what type of document I’m in

[@saulaxel]

@@johnclasson6691 With autocommands

[@humanfactorsio]

Got me at "Know how to exit out of Vim" 😂😂😂

[@ashwin372]

I used vi while following some tutorial initially i had no clue how to exit so i had to shut down the pc manually 😂

[@sykocode8530]

I don't understand this meme tho... Its written there :q to quit when you open it

[@algoboi]

press Esc and then type colon : and q . Hit enter

[@ashwin372]

@@algoboi of course. I had no knowledge about vim and linux so it was really hard.

[@view2me]

@@ashwin372 lmao

[@josephknightcom]

Excellent video. Thank you for being so to-the-point. Been considering trying VIM regardless of all the visual IDE’s out there. I think you just convinced me to delve into some VIM. Thank you.

[@electricspider2267]

The most important key combination is ESC ESC ESC :q! ENTER Where ESC is the escape key And ENTER is the enter key. Everything else is typed out (except the spaces) If you learn one thing about vim, this should be it.

[@aimee6757]

this was really helpful!! my boyfriend taught me how to exit vim now i wanna learn more about it for him :)

[@CodingCommanders]

Great information and well explained!

[@simonjohnade]

Just what I needed to hear ;)

[@a9nh]

Nice video! You convinced me to watch your complete vim course on Skillshare! But may be after i complete one of the linux admin bootcamp stuff.

[@meirnl]

Thank you for this video. I have just started using vim as plugins for autocompletion on editors such as VSCode or Sublime Text in C/C++ and Rust weren't working for me, while YCM works extremely well for these languages. I already used vim to edit when using the terminal, but the examples you showed such as di" make it much easier for me to learn vim as I now see the logic in these specific combinations of keys :)

[@Naitsabes68]

Commands are easy to remember in Vim sweats in Ctrl+W Shift+T

[@The9TKitsune]

Ctrl+W -> "control windows". Vim refers to visual views of buffers as windows, so this makes sense. You're moving into mode to control the windows on your screen.

[@vasilisthemelis9017]

"inside" is a proposition in this case.

[@MoreChannelNoise]

Tried it and tried it but could never get used to the modes, having to type i or a to edit and then get out of edit mode to be able to move around etcc.

[@homedevise8025]

Visual studio code?

[@cerealguyfrank5509]

Interesting!

[@UltraAnalisis]

i use programmer Dvorak how do i change every key or where there is a file and how to use it to change the keys. i already change the keys 1 at the time on vim plus atom, but i got your video course and the vim editor... i want to follow you and be able to do everything with you, on the layout i use.

[@kamalhossain8282]

UltraAnalisis 6688

[@abhishekprabakar2775]

Very intersting...................................................................................................................

[@lesliesavege1206]

1:58 I was blown away as too how hard it was to exit edit mode. Crashed it and had to close the terminal, and then found out it left a hidden swp file in the directory. Nano is much easier to use, and the short cut keys are listed at the bottom of the editor. Why anybody would want to use vim is beyond me, when the learning curve to nano is almost nonexistent.

[@LinuxTrainingAcademy]

Vim is super powerful. Nano is fine for simple, infrequent text editing. However, if you spend a lot of time editing text files, then vim is worth the learning curve. Vim has saved me countless hours. ;)

[@vviimmi]

i think i will pick up vim 😂

[@hamobu]

I am running kubuntu. When I type vim it tells me that it's not installed, but when I type vi, it says that I am running vim

[@LinuxTrainingAcademy]

To get the full version of vim run these commands: sudo apt update sudo apt install vim

[@ebrimao.touray8201]

mein you are so convincing :-)

[@DrEn-vp2pg]

Vim is on macOS by default

[@maddancing]

What Vim Is and Why You Should Learn It : ~~It may be your only editor choice. ^This, in every other `why vim` video....

[@lenfy.]

and u camt exit vim

[@HeyFang]

When did he show how to exit vim? ;-;

[@torsmork]

When I want to delete a word I just move to the word with either a mouse or the arrow keys, and then delete it. All done. No need to use something overly complex and hard-to-use, for such a simple task. That would just be the opposite of effective. :P

[@rootofminusone]

lol comparing vim with nano

[@josephgaviota]

"Vim is ubiquitous" ... well yes, since it's part of the POSIX standard.

[@samueldantas6817]

Vim or Emacs?

[@samueldantas6817]

Jessica Rocha-Slemmons Actually, I'm learning Vim. Hope in a few months do a fully switch.

[@DavidMannMD]

Evil mode in Emacs. Best of both worlds.

[@hinach4n698]

NEOVIM

[@zaimwaqar2788]

Evil

[@VictorRodriguez-zp2do]

@@hinach4n698 Vim 8.1

[@NguyenTran-eq2wg]

Why are we using this in 2022...

[@LinuxTrainingAcademy]

Because it's as awesome in 2022 as it's ever been. ;-)

[@NguyenTran-eq2wg]

@@LinuxTrainingAcademy Sorry if I seem out of touch. I'm just a new college freshman starting out with CS, and I can't seem to wrap my head around why are we doing this instead of using Word or Google Docs or VS Code which are so intuitive?

[@zokalyx]

@@NguyenTran-eq2wg vim is faster if you learn how to use it. vscode and similar editors have a limit on how fast you can edit or navigate, since you need to use the mouse.

[@alexanderzaborski6675]

Visual Studio Code > Vim ;)

[@colorofmus1s]

Alexander Zaborski lol

[@butafly5117]

Hmmmm looks like you got < confused with >. Please Edit

[@MrChicharo90]

Reuben Magee lemme go into Edit mode

[@muabyt7333]

you forgot to do (esc) :q!

[@xonxt]

literally anything > Vim.. unless you're working on a terminal with no GUI or through ssh, and have no other choice. Otherwise, there's literally not a single reason to submit yourself to this sado-masochistic torture. And this video did nothing to convince me. Literally every single feature or function can be done with any other editor (like Notepad++) or IDE, but without having to learn a bunch of "shortcuts".