Why you should learn VIM in 2022

I want to encourage you to add an efficiency skill to your skillset that will benefit you throughout your entire career as a developer.

2:04 - How to get started with VIM.
2:44 - Insert Mode. (make vim act like nano)
3:40 - Getting back to normal
4:09 - Console Mode
5:00 - Quitting
6:10 - Quickly change the text inside quotes
7:15 - Saving your changes.

Not, by replacing your favourite IDE with VIM but rather to use VIM commands to further improve your favourite IDE.

In this video, I show how you can get started by replacing nano with the VIM editor until you are ready to take VIM to your favourite IDE with a plug-in.

If you want to skip the reasoning and dive straight into VIM basics skip ahead to 2:00 and just read the blog post linked below.

Read the Blog Post

[alexdelgado]

Learning vim is one of those things i am happy i learn early as a developer

[chrissaltmarsh]

I started it in the mid 80s - Bill Joys vi.
I use neovim now.
I still have the muscle memory
It will do file navigation, auto-complete, syntax analysis, but none of the pointy-clicky nuisance; I'm on the keyboard.
It makes you close to what you are trying to make.
(And if you want to make your own editor tricks, you can do it)

[quantumbits]

your way was so clear in explaining
I gonna learn vim.
Looking forward for more vids on VIM.

[gtmoyo]

ci" is an elite shortcut. Helpful video! I hate going into vim to make commit messages. Maybe vim isn't the enemy after all.

[thepaulcraft]

I think the vim keybindings are one half of vim. The real power is the possibility of combining plugins like telescope.nvim with vim and it's keybinds

[calmeilles]

*_The_* reason to learn the basics of vi or vim is that you are very likely to find it on any machine you're working on. Whether you discover that you _like_ it and want to learn it in depth is a matter of taste; because editor wars are crass.

[alinkl]

or just use ZZ to save and quit or ZQ to quit without saving, for me is more helpful

[JCannister]

I'm trying, I'm trying. I remember there was a website that had gamified learning Vim but I cant remember what it was.

[lucasmontec]

Also, okay, saving is quick in vim.... in my IDE there is no concept of saving. It is always saved.

[lucasmontec]

not convinced that the time gain is any worth. Actually, it seems to be a way less enjoyable way to just write more than I usually do. I don't write code, my IDE writes code for me. Your argument only makes sense if the developer is editing tons of config files by hand.

[vaisakh_km]

neovim has became most beloved text editor of 2022 acc. stackoverflow developer survey 2022

🥳🥳 beating vscode, i am glad that i picked up nvim as my main editor after lot of hesitation