Vim Tutorial in 59 Minutes, Part — 1 Basics

• Vim is a hell of an editor, which has a very steep learning curve, but very efficient when you are done with it.

Starting Editing in Vim

• editing from command-line

$ vi filename 

• open a file inside vim, first entering vim using vi command then use :e command

$ vi
:e filename

Saving file

• run following command from normal mode.

:w

Exiting Vim

• exiting after writing file or you haven’t changed anything

:q 

• exiting without saving changes, changes will be lost

:q!

Vim Modes

Vim works on the principle of modality, so it has various modes,

• Insert mode — want to insert something
• Normal/command mode — want to run come command
• Visual mode — can mark some text and then can run some commands over them.

Navigating modes

• insert mode -> press ‘i’ from normal mode
• visual mode -> press ‘v’ from normal mode
• command/normal mode -> press ESC or Ctrl+[ from any other mode

Motion in Vim

• we can only move in normal/visual mode

motions in Vim

• Checkout full tutorial on youtube

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