How do I exit vim?

Intro

Why Vim?

Cross platform
Available everywhere
Extremely lightweight
Great plugin ecosystem
Battle tested!
Well documented

Vim is Charityware

Users are encouraged to donate to needy children in Uganda
Users can sponsor development of Vim, proceeds go to Uganda
:help uganda

Vim History

Written by Bram Moolenaar
First released publicly in 1991 (22 years ago!)
Originally released for the Amiga
Voted most popular editor by Linux Journal readers in 2006

Vim Features

Completion
Comparison and merging of files (vimdiff)
Extended regular expressions
Various scripting language support (Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Lua)
Graphical user interface (gvim)
Mouse interaction (with and without gui)
Folding
Editing of compressed or archived files in gzip, bzip2, zip, and tar formats
Editing of files over network protocols such as SSH, FTP, HTTP
Session state preservation
Spell checking
Split and tabbed windows
Unicode and multi-language support
Syntax highlighting
Search and position cursor histories

Supported Platforms

Atari MiNT
BeOS
DOS
Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008年7月8日
IBM OS/2 and OS/390
MorphOS
OpenVMS
QNX
RISC OS
Unix
Linux
BSD
Mac OS
Android (independent port)
iOS (independent port)

Getting Started

Installing Vim

Linux


 |# CentOS/RPM based distro
 |yum install vim-enhanced vim-common vim-minimal
 |
 |# Ubuntu/Debian
 |apt-get install vim

Mac


 |# Shipped with OSX _or_
 |# install latest via Homebrew
 |brew install vim

Windows

Download the Installer: http://www.vim.org/download.php/#pc

Learning Vim

Disable arrow keys!
vimtutor
:help
Vim Casts
Vim Adventures
Muscle memory (it gets easier!)
Other peoples vimrc configuration
Cheatsheet!

Disable arrow keys


 |" vimrc file
 |nnoremap <up> <nop>
 |nnoremap <down> <nop>
 |nnoremap <left> <nop>
 |nnoremap <right> <nop>
 |inoremap <up> <nop>
 |inoremap <down> <nop>
 |inoremap <left> <nop>
 |inoremap <right> <nop>

Vim tutor

Vim Adventures!

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Cheatsheet

Using Vim

Starting from scratch

Install Pathogen
Install tpope/vim-sensible
Don't verbatim copy others vimrc

Your first ~/.vimrc


 |execute pathogen#infect()
 |syntax on
 |filetype plugin indent on

Modes

Normal → Navigating a file. Small changes.
Visual → Select blocks of text for copy/paste/manipulation.
Insert → Insert text at cursor.

Moving Around

Done in Normal/Visual mode

Character by character

The "h", "j", "k", and "l" commands to move the cursor left, down, up, and right respectively.

Word movement

The "w" command moves the cursor forward one word. Use numeric prefixes to modify the command. Move three words forward using "3w".

Line movement

The "$" command moves cursor to end of line. The "^" command moves cursor to the first non-blank character of the line. The "0" command moves the cursor to the very first character of the line.

Operators and motions

Combine operator with motion

"dw" to delete word

"d$" to delete to end of line

"cw" to change word

"c$" to change from cursor to end of line

Visual mode

Start visual mode with "v" or "V"

Pair with motions - "Vjj"

Delete "d" or "x"

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Extending Vim

Vimrc

Home of all your user-specific configuration
Located in home folder with name '.vimrc'
Checkout my dotfiles repo for mine
Also checkout icholy dotfiles repo for his

Vim script (VimL)

Used to extend Vim
Fairly obscure
Only a few people truly understand it (IMHO)
:help usr_41

Vimscript is the most common plugin format

Not just Vimscript - Ruby, Tcl, Lua, Perl, Python

Package Management

Manual

Download package
Extract package
Move contents of specific folders to same folders under ~/.vim

Vundle

Specify packages in Vimrc
Manages packages
Installs from github/etc
Similar to wbond's package manager for ST2

Pathogen

Written by Tim Pope
Doesn't manage packages
Loader only
No manifest

Packages

Finding Packages

vim.org/scripts
github.com (prefixed with vim-)

Packages I use

Pathogen
Airline
Dispatch
Fugutive
Vinegar
Sleuth
Sensible
Railscasts Theme
Endwise
Unite
Commentary