Essential Vim

http://www.pixelbeat.org/vim.tips.html

by mace • 16 years ago

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koenigdavidmj• 16 years ago

Poor guy uses the Insert key to get into insert mode. My wrists already feel pain just from reading that.

A lot of his keybindings are are similarly nonstandard.

BoppreH• 16 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. I was already bookmarking it to practice.

alexkay• 16 years ago

Same for Esc to leave it, C-[ works much better.

pssdbt• 16 years ago

Or C-c.

Also pretty popular to remap capslock to esc, I tried it but never got used to it.

xtho• 16 years ago

c-[ is Escape (displayed as ^[ in vim). Also, it isn't obvious for beginners where c-[ is located on non-English keyboards. And it's two keys to press. I'd still prefer Esc. The fact that the key is usally located outside of the main typing area reflect its meaning. Get me out of here.

nitrogen2• 16 years ago

I almost never use i to get into insert mode. I use a or o almost exclusively.

jimmyjim• 16 years ago

Now, someone give me the equivalent 'Essential Emacs' link please! =)

crazydiamond2• 16 years ago

Please go to the catonmat site. It has cheat sheets for vim, emacs and a bunch of other useful things.

There's also a ruby gem named "cheat" which has cheatsheets for 100's of commands and programs. you can access them on your command-line.

nitrogen2• 16 years ago

It would be nice if that table included the full versions of some of the commands. For example:

  :sp is equivalent to :split
  :vs is equivalent to :vsplit

For me at least, the abbreviated commands become more intuitive if I know exactly what's being abbreviated (most of the time I type :vsplit instead of :vs anyway).

sigzero2• 16 years ago

I like to know the long version before I start abbreviating things too.

ssx• 16 years ago

Vim is awesome. NERDTree is a must for any developer.

Vitaly2• 16 years ago

a good collection of vim plugins and configs (with an awesome README) can be found here: http://github.com/astrails/dotvim

epistemenical• 16 years ago

> If you are transitioning from windows, then in order of preference you will probably want to use, evim, gvim, vim.

What advantage does console vim have over gvim

jamesbritt• 16 years ago

Plays nice with screen and tmux.

telemachos• 16 years ago

Probably "regular" vim goes last in that list because the author assumes Windows users are unfamiliar with the terminal. But it can be easier to open vim in the console for something quick or if you're doing something over the network (say, ssh). For example, I use the terminal often for quick commit messages or short edits and consistently for Mutt. Regular vim is easier with Mutt rather than kicking open G/Mvim and then returning to the terminal to send the mail. (You can automate the right return to focus for the terminal when you close G/Mvim, but it's still a bit jarring.) For very long edits on a good connection, I will open sshfs and use M/Gvim, but in general ssh + vim is simpler.

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