I promised my colleague that I would become a VIM pro. 😁 I already know some basics, but I wish I would be more advanced. I actually wanted to practice every day, but I have so much to do for my studies right now. =/

Vim is a text editor for efficient text editing and programming. Vim is useful when you work a lot with the command line in linux. Alternatively there’s nano. Nano is easier to use, but not that efficient and powerful as vim.

According to the tutorial of vim – hero . com it’s not that much. 🤔

Learning vim is just a mix of memorization and practice. But the vim documentation has a hundreds of commands and options.

Basic Navigation

    h - Move left
    j - Move down
    k - Move up
    l - Move right
    gg - Go to the beginning of the file
    G - Go to the end of the file
    :n - Go to line number n
    w - Move to the beginning of the next word
    b - Move to the beginning of the previous word
    0 - Go to the beginning of the line
    $ - Go to the end of the line

Editing

    i - Enter Insert mode before the cursor
    a - Enter Insert mode after the cursor
    o - Open a new line below the current line
    O - Open a new line above the current line
    x - Delete the character under the cursor
    dd - Delete the current line
    yy - Yank (copy) the current line
    p - Paste the yanked text after the cursor
    u - Undo the last action
    Ctrl + r - Redo the last undone action

Searching

    /pattern - Search for pattern forward
    ?pattern - Search for pattern backward
    n - Repeat the last search in the same direction
    N - Repeat the last search in the opposite direction

Saving and Exiting

    :w - Save the file
    :q - Quit Vim
    :wq - Save and quit
    :q! - Quit without saving

Visual Mode

    v - Enter Visual mode
    V - Enter Visual Line mode
    Ctrl + v - Enter Visual Block mode

Miscellaneous

    :set number - Show line numbers
    :set nonumber - Hide line numbers
    :help - Open the help documentation