Learning Vim
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to use the Vim text editor. Add Vim to your development or system administration workflow for more productivity and power.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Vim for text editing
- Why Vim?
- Vim installation
- Sample files and challenges
- Start and quit Vim
- Dual mode
- Insert text
- Save and quit
- Challenge: Create file
- Solution: Create file
- Navigate using keys: H, J, K, L
- Words, sentences, and paragraphs
- Challenge: Find word
- Solution: Find word
- Regular expressions
- Challenge: Search word
- Solution: Search word
- Screen movement
- Challenge: Move screens
- Solution: Move screens
- Lines
- Challenge: Move lines
- Solution: Move lines
- Current word
- Challenge: Find next instance of word
- Solution: Find next instance of word
- Delete text
- Challenge: Delete sentence
- Solution: Delete sentence
- Copy and paste
- Challenge: Copy and paste
- Solution: Copy and paste
- Change text
- Challenge: Change text
- Solution: Change text
- Visual selection
- Challenge: Use visual selection
- Solution: Use visual selection
- Registers
- Challenge: Use registers
- Solution: Use registers
- Replace text
- Define and jump to marks
- Challenge: Define and jump to mark
- Solution: Define and jump to mark
- Jump through history
- Challenge: Jump back
- Solution: Jump back
- Move to last change
- Challenge: Last change
- Solution: Last change
- Windows and buffers
- Challenge: Buffer
- Solution: Buffer
- Edit files
- Challenge: Edit files
- Solution: Edit files
- Move between buffers
- Challenge: Switch buffer
- Solution: Switch buffer
- Read command
- Challenge: Insert file
- Solution: Insert file
- Configuration files
- Challenge: Set line numbers
- Solution: Set line numbers
- Map keys
- Challenge: Map key
- Solution: Map key
- Abbreviations
- Challenge: Abbreviate email
- Solution: Abbreviate email
- Add commands
- Challenge: Create command
- Solution: Create command
- Various settings
- Challenge: Edit .vimrc
- Solution: Edit .vimrc
- Start Vim with a command
- Challenge: Use Vim command
- Solution: Use Vim command
- Diff mode
- Challenge: Diff mode
- Solution: Diff mode
- Zip files
- Challenge: Zip file
- Solution: Zip file
- Open files from name
- Challenge: Open file to line number
- Solution: Open file to line number
- External commands
- Challenge: External command
- Solution: External command
- Next steps
Taught by
Miki Tebeka
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