Learn to love the Vim text editor

Find Vim scary? Can't understand why some people love it? We show you why it rocks, and set you on the path to external text editing enlightenment.

[Miko_Jones]

Loving this tutorial!
99% of the tutorials out there just rehash what's in the "vimtutor".
This one however says "Follow the excellent vimtutor then, when you've finished, look what  other realy cool stuff you can do.
10/10 Mike

[kirishima]

Brilliant! I used to think that VIM was an old fashioned thing used by linux die hards but now that I'm learning it (I'm a programmer) I find 'normal'/mouse driven text editing programs to be completely backward and laborious.

Adding tags on paragraphs can be done with: cip<p>ctrl-r"</p>

[simonced]

I often forget to use the normal command. Thanks for the reminder!

[verbal]

Nice intro and those cheat sheets are gold.

[defactotwo]

thanks for vid, works great on raspbian with vim or gvim. The vim .vimrc part configuration works great on both vim and gvim

[auntiecarol]

Very clear and concise!
After recalling the macro @p to operate on each of the three lines, how does one apply it to all three lines as a block?

line 1
line 2
line 3

to

<p>line 1
line 2
line 3</p>

??

[MikeyD]

That a great intro, I never used the macros much, but now I am itching to get home and record some for my git project :)

[reidyj]

Best VIM video I have watched. Thank you!

[VictorRodriguez-zpdo]

set relativenumber the single greatest vim option.

[agwilt]

Wow, no downvotes by Emacs users yet :) I also learnt Vim mostly with vimtutor ... on OS X!

[sonamrawat]

mkinit -p linux command is not working for me

[nikodemus]

I change the .vimrc-file, but get no change! Can someone help me? I use a Macbook, so vim was pre-installed!

[RagHelen]

This video should be renamed into How to hate the Vim text editor in two minutes.

[MoreChannelNoise]

Vim will save you time, really? I think a lot of people (like me) will spend a week learning it and longer than that fiddling with the config files and in the end find they just use geany most of the time, LOL
ps it was a good video on vim though.

[FlashManinSpace]

If you're a programmer and you don't use Vim, you're not a programmer.