The Vim Tutorial - Part One - Basic Commands

Let's get started with Vim! This video covers a few basic commands. But this is just scratching the surface of Vim. There is much more to Vim (to be covered in future videos).

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Finally, I learnt how to exit Vim, and I have my computer back, thank you so much!

[bitterlemonboy]

Can't believe I had to watch a tutorial about how to use a text editor

[techenglish]

20:01 A little improvement here: instead small letter 'p' you can use capital 'P' (shift P) if you want to put the copied text on that line where you at (line 17th). Small letter 'p' is for "add copied line" and capital 'P' is for "insert copied line".

[davidrichardson]

Thanks Derek. My linux knowledge has got to a point where I wanted to learn how to use vim and your video has helped me enormously. I have written down copious notes which will be typed up for my own benefit later on. Looking forward to watching part 2 and making even more notes. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge in a simple and fun way.

[malluk]

Man great tutorial. You have put in a whole lot of work in these videos, the background colors, the layout of the screen, keystroke display on the screen...just awesome dude. I am recommending your tutorial to others who have tutorials of their own. Very well done.

[AdamTheGuitarist]

Finaly. After years stuck in the vi hell, I can finally close it :D

[spqa]

This is so much better than reading a book. While i prefer books/paper/reading for quick references, learning is much easier when i can see it in action rather than trying to interpret someone's wordy description of all these commands.

[maxsiem]

Thanks a lot, DT. I’ve been busy learning to use Vim the last few weeks. So far, so good.

[robertwelch]

Thanks for this; great tutorial. I sent a link to it to my daughter, who has landed a college internship that requires python programming. One observation: CTRL+[ will also take you out of insert mode, and it doesn't require your fingers to leave the home keys.

[charliekim]

I am young at 70+ but feel old when nobody talks about (and praises) nedit. It is an old motif editor, largely ignored by most younger generations. Block copy (or cut) and paste is one of the most essential features of an editor, and nedit (or, xnedit if xorg fonts look too ancient) does it better than most, if not all, other editors. Although nedit (binary) may be found in major pkg repositories, xnedit is still build-it-yourself program. However, once one gets a hang of it (in a few days?) nedit or xnedit, both under 2 MB size, he/she will find what a really good text editor is like.

[mxaraujo]

I'm just starting to migrate to vim (in fact, I'm using nvim) and found this video amazing. Vim has been surprising to me, light, fast, customizable and with many features.

[Yalchin]

Seems like I found one more fav channel on Utube) Nice explanation and also visualization. Thanks for your time and effort. Appreciate it!

[StefanSchindewolf]

This video brought me to DT`s channel. VIM is just great and that anybody would make a video about in late 2018 was unimaginable for me 20 years ago when I learned it. Thank you, DT!

[timothyleffel]

dude is extremely good at making instructional vids — nice

[toranshaw]

Looking forward to this series, as Vim is something I have always wanted to learn.

[PontiacCZ]

Thanks to 4:52 I finally know why basic movement keys in Vim are h, j, k, l. Thank you for the photo of the old terminal! :-)

[sunilmehrotra]

Thank you so much for such a helpful video. Also, you are blessed with such a clear voice . Content is really helpful

[VulcanOnWheels]

2:24 I play VIM Adventures already. I'm at level 8.
9:20 I don't see it in mine.
10:51 I did not notice any delay.
15:36 I say as long as we understand what you mean, and I do.
I'm sorry you didn't include the P command to paste on the line where the cursor is.

[TheSchwartzable]

You have a perfect narrator voice, great tutorial! Now I'm trying to use vim commands to edit my youtube comments as I'm writing them xD

[arkadianriver]

Well done! I like your tone. No judgement