The Absolute Basics of Vim (It's Not THAT Hard!)

I've made a lot of videos about Vim in the past, but I wanted to make another introductory video to those that want to the learn the basic Vim keybindings and editing commands. I'm doing this because many viewers haven't watched my older videos and probably will never find them.

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[MarkusHobelsberger]

dt: "It's not THAT Hard!"
proceeds to explain 300 keybindings

[jwf]

Vim has intimidated me for a decade-and-a-half to two decades...No More !!! Thank you Distro Tube !!!

[Jacob-nzok]

"It takes a day to learn Vim. Everyday"

[LappDog]

Some useful find/replacement commands (not mentioned):
:s%/foo/bar replaces first occurrence of 'foo' with 'bar' in the buffer
:%s/foo/bar/g replaces all occurrences of 'foo' with 'bar'
:%s/foo//gn counts all occurrences of 'foo'

[nexu]

Thanks this is really informative. Ive been using vim for the last half a year and I've been getting used to it and learning some of those keybinds. And this video is great summary of the basics and i will definitely rewatch it in the future.

[joetheman]

The reason for sticking with HJKL is for typist that know how to type properly. HJKL are on the home row. The idea is efficiency. You keep you fingers planted on the home row without having to move back and forth to the arrow keys and back. It makes things faster and more efficient.

[AndreasWilfer]

Very informative and well done for absolute vim/evil motions beginners like me, appreciate it!

[Kaikaci]

I know vim, but still watching because dt❤

[bojanstrkovski]

thanks for this great tutorial i finaly understood the visual modes little bit better after using neovim for quite a while keep on creating this much needed lesson for us noobs and everyone else best regards from Macedonia

[gaiusbaltar]

I used to hate Vim and use Nano but once I really took my time to learn it, could not use anything else no more.

[Prophet]

This video is right on time I just installed Vim recently. I've been using Micro terminal editor.

[hofpv]

So good that I still learning with this videos thank you DT.😊

[smoteytothemax]

Thanks DT! Youre a LinuxTube legend. 💪

[halfsourlizard]

This is the way. Be warned: After you learn Vim, it will be truly painful to watch non-Vimmers flailing around trying to move their cursor by pressing the arrow key 47 times to do what `f(` would have done ... or ... worse ... using the mouse.

[SEGHIIR]

you just convinced me to use Vim and it's awesome thank you.

[distant]

For going to the first and last actual non-whitespace character in a line i think it would be more consistent to use _ and g_ instead of ^ and g_

[hulk]

Hey DT, thank you for this gentle introduction to Vim, just a small correction that I noticed while following along, the dollar ($) sign won't do reverse search you need to click on the question mark (?) symbol and type the word to search in reverse.

[MerkDolf]

HEY DT how did you get your keyboard strokes to show up in the black box at the bottom right of the video?

[SamuTheFrog]

I commented on a distrotube video a while back that Vim sucks, too complicated or something like that. I take that back & apologize for my ignorance 🤣🤣🤣
Im laughing at myself now. Having been pushed into it for key reasons, I've found myself to be very wrong in my vim hate.
Vim is nice. Vim is really nice.
I wanna dabble with neovim at some point.

[joanarling]

Some viewers might wonder where that "hjkl" idea came from... it's an inheritance from the original vi. At the time that was developed, cursor keys were far from common on many terminals, so other keys had to do.