Two Simple Steps to go from IDE to Vim

Have you ever wondered what it takes to go from an IDE to just vim? These are the two simple steps it takes to go from an IDE to VIM. From VS Code to Vim. From Intellij To Vim.

On a serious note, this is actually just a remake of a joke that was made on stream. Someone asked what it takes to go from an ide to just vim so I explained the really simple set of instructions but went on for quite some time.

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[teece]

This was really helpful I have decided to work exclusively in Microsoft Word

[mcfrizzlefries]

Beginning of the video: Oh a nice little introduction!
Halfway through:

[burnouttheone]

took like two whole minutes for me to realize i was being trolled -_-

[netherlabgames]

This might be satire, but the amount of useful information you can extract from this cannot be overstated!

[nickstill]

Two simple steps:

1. Movement/editing/writing Hotkeys:
h move left
j move down
k move up
l move right
w jump by start of words (punctuation considered words)
W jump by words (spaces separate words)
e jump to end of words (punctuation considered words)
E jump to end of words (no punctuation)
b jump backward by words (punctuation considered words)
B jump backward by words (no punctuation)
0 (zero) start of line
^ first non-blank character of line
$ end of line
G Go To command (prefix with number
i start insert mode at cursor
I insert at the beginning of the line
a append after the cursor
A append at the end of the line
o open (append) blank line below current line
O open blank line above current line
ea append at end of word
r replace a single character (does not use insert mode)
J join line below to the current one
cc change (replace) an entire line
cw change (replace) to the end of word
c$ change (replace) to the end of line
s delete character at cursor and subsitute text
S delete line at cursor and substitute text (same as cc)
yy yank (copy) a line
2yy yank 2 lines
yw yank word
y$ yank to end of line
p put (paste) the clipboard after cursor
P put (paste) before cursor
dd delete (cut) a line
dw delete (cut) the current word
x delete (cut) current character
:w write (save) the file, but don't exit
:wq write (save) and quit
:q quit (fails if anything has changed)
:q! quit and throw away changes

2. File/window hotkeys:
/pattern search for pattern
?pattern search backward for pattern
n repeat search in same direction
N repeat search in opposite direction
:e filename Edit a file in a new buffer
:bnext (or :bn) go to next buffer
:bprev (of :bp) go to previous buffer
:bd delete a buffer (close a file)
:sp filename Open a file in a new buffer and split window
ctrl+ws Split windows
ctrl+ww switch between windows
ctrl+wq Quit a window
ctrl+wv Split windows vertically

15 minutes, easy! 0 to FULL-VIM

[KENTOSI]

I never realised it was that easy. You are an inspiration.

[thanhtupham]

Your guide is simple and very easy to follow. After learning Vim from your video, I think I am fine with VSCode

[fanone]

Watched this video on 0.25 speed and still need 6 hours version...

[chyldstudios]

n00b way to exit vim: shutdown now
l33t way to exit vim: flip the circuit breaker

[_mto]

i've been using vim for like ≈ 2 years and this has just accelerated my learning like none other

[daya]

Hahaha you may have just scared a lot of people away from trying vim 😂

[pecinta.koding]

"shutdown now". What a nice command to exit XD

[DmitryShpika]

"How to invoke Satan using Vim"

[dataaholic]

This may be a satire video but after watching "Vim as your editor" series, I can use this video as a quick revision. Of course I have to keep speed at 0.5

[Iggy_Lakic]

You're a legend Prime!😁😎🤘 You showed everyone that vim is an easy to learn text editor😁, smooth like a coconut oil 🤘😅🤘

[PaperBenni]

For people that already know a bit of vim this was actually pretty useful

[jokiwolf]

This is genius...the ammount of key bindings shown here is what you are going to need to code efficiently on vim.

[alicandonmez]

Hey, I realized I'm not using "g" and "="

[CaptainKraft]

Without question... your best performance yet. Well done good sir

[luismaschietto]

Two things,
One: Vim plugin,
Two: Some zillion other things