VIM The Ultimate Editor

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To overcome that confusion between j for down and k for up, just make a gesture pointing down and say to your self "Your going down!". It's very natural to point down with your forefinger. Of course, pointing up with just your middle finger conjures the "Up yours" phrase. Those two mental images should get you going in the right direction more often.

Do you have totorials on that file manger built-in.

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<rant>When MSDOS appeared, I used to prefer EDLIN to vi and any of it's rat-infested descendants. Because for several years In the 80's. I had to write software with vi and document it with vi & nroff. On terminals where all sorts of keys (up/down/let/right/etc) generated ESC sequences, happily terminating whichever idiotic vi mode you were in and dropping you into something random. EDT on VAX/VMS was marginally more useful, EDIT on MSDOS was not bad, TPU (also VAX) was rather lovely, and MicroEMACs was bliss. I do still remember how to get out of vi(m) and how to do the very basic stuff, lets call it scar tissue. It's surprisingly visceral after all those years.</rant> Sorry, nuffin personal.

Anyone using vi/vim need to see the doctor for evaluation

In order to make things more manageable with my vimrc, I've compartmentalized it; I have a .vim/config/ directory with like my '.vimrc.plug' and '.vimrc.plug.config' and even my '.vimrc.statusline' files, and then the .vimrc file sources them all. A bit more involved to set up initially, but I find it easier to find things.

I love that Mandalorian poster.

Why make shortcuts for keys that are on the keyboard? Why make all these shortcuts to move the cursor when some of them already exist? ctrl+home, ctrl+end, ctrl+left/right arrow.. seems overly complicated. I don't understand why people have to make editors more complex than they need to be.

Accidentally found vi in 1996, while investigating a Solaris 2.3 machine. Was hooked on Vim while learning Linux in 1997.

I prefer VS Code. Not because I like the UI or use any of its features and extensions but because it's an Electron application powered by JavaScript, the most-loved programming language among software engineers.

EMACS for me, but vim is great too.

The absolute Vim editor is Helix, feature complete, no plugins, no electron, tsp, lsp built-in, multi-platform, rust

I swapped the tilde key and escape key much nicer then the default location :P

Vim for windows 10?

I was a vi user since the 90s and switched to vim 3 years ago when a coworker was using it. It's the first thing I install on any distro, or even inside dockers containers.

Nearly every editor that was made in the 80s can do exactly what that guy just did. This is nothing new, and rather rudimentary for an editor.

Great video, how did you put a window manager on Debian?

For hjkl I feel the same and also have the dislike feeling hand needs to leave home row.. I try to remember 'j' sticks down so is down. Another option is separate learning(and practice use) h and l from learning j and k.

once you start using vim slowly you will get addicted to it and make everything conform to vim keybindings. because you cant live without it

for browser extention i recommend vimium c.
cmus for music.

Well, not to many people will be even near as close to make that speed. I go for Emacs any day, and if you are serious programmer or system administrator. And yes, there are a evil mode that is basically vi(1) keybindings for Emacs. If you must.

A learn enough vi(1) to edit the configure and compile Emacs. But then configure came, and there was no need to learn vi/vim anymore.

There only one way to fast quite vim(1), that is the power button. 😀

But seriously, vim(1) is just a thin layer on top of ed(1), so why bother with vim? 😀

Thank you have learnt so much from you and JustAGuy Linux , DistroTube over the last two months. As a long time windows user (98 to win10? To big and loaded with stuff that I never used) I was so used to changing something in windows and waiting for the blue screen of death that I just stopped changing things. You have give me the confidence to try things in Linux and make the system suit me thank you again keep up the good work.

used to hate vim as well, until I decided to remove nano and force myself to use vim. I'm not proficient by any stretch of the imagination, but turning on vim mode in Obsidian really helped!

Thanks... it's working... Good Job...!

Vim was great but is quickly being superseded by neovim.

One of the many things I learned using vim is one could map H and L to :bprev and :bnext respectively in nomal mode to move left and right between open buffers just for the muscle memory (since h and l navigates left and right respectively). H is for moving the cursor on top of the screen but one could use gg for that. L is for moving the cursor to the bottom of the buffer but one could use G instead.

Hi I’m a nano pleb

I highly recommend the book 'Practical Vim' by Drew Neil if you want to up your game. It's a treasure trove

like the video. but I'm such a noob programmer/scripter/Linux-user that this would definitely not speed up my workflow. i use nano for everything, ctr-s saves and ctr-x exits. nothing fancy, no memorizing... :-). I'll pretty need to learn if someday tho lol

It's interesting, and it's different. But . . . I'm not seeing anything strikes me as "must have" and completely unavailable in something like Visual Studio Code. I also just don't get the point in having dedicated modes for things that can be done with hotkeys.

j = jump (DOWN), k = ketch(UP). remapped j to jzz, k to jzz, n to jzz, N to Nzz to keep itall in the center

it's a waste of time

Vim is also the ultimate ide

"j" because most of the time you want to go to the next line, and this key is under your index finger.

ThePrimeagen, the speed demon of Vim. Can't believe you have not discovered him until now? I have been watching this guy for a while. I use Vim for my Linux note taking. My Linux notes are 14,000 lines long. Vim let's me move effortlessly to my documented command lines and scripts quickly.

The Primeagen can convince someone who doesn't even have a computer just by his excitement

I still use vi to edit with my virtualized boxes because I don't have to install anything most of the time. Ironically when I see nano in the package list, I puke and immediately purge it 🤣. Also I like to classically remap the ESC key to the Capslock.. who tf uses capslock for anything? Boomers ranting about the freemasons and contrails? haha

to remap the ljk navigation you can add these :
nnoremap e l
nnoremap k j
nnoremap l k

it works like this : nnoremap + <your key> + <default vim key>

Hi, great video thank you

Chris over here having issues with learning vim moments

Meanwhile im having issues relearning vim moments on colemak, and bloody hell its painful.

On colemak the hjkl location is different, its like hynu

Where h is still left, y is down, n is up and l is right. I'll either learn how to use this, or die trying🥲

I don't know about that guy being fast. I think I'm faster and have been faster for decades. What irritates me now days is how vim has slowed down over the years. I don't like watching vim lag by a couple of seconds. vi always reflected what you did as you did it. Not arthritis slow vim that seems to have a hangover. Maybe it is because I use it as my kitchen sink and some essential plugins were not written properly. I've had to get rid of many. Most. Whatever I do though is done with vim. Whether it is pulling up librecalc, pdfs, browsers, searches on my hard disk, most everything, is done starting from vim.

I've been using vi the very first time I touched a unix system. When I install linux, vi/vim is one of the first things I install. I never learned any other editor. I have a cheat sheet from when I was in college.

"Try out once" - yea after doing vimtutor. If not your not getting anywhere, you restart your computer because you could not get out of it, and from there never boot up vim again 😅

I've been an unhappy Windows programmer for two decades. I loved Solaris and vi.

This brings back happy memories.

Does Vim still leave ~files around? That bothered me.

I used vi in unix for many years! Thanks for the video...

I deleted vim from funtoo from scratch stage 1 in favor of nano. Nano is more approachable from a normal person's prospective.