Lecture 3: Editors (vim) (2020)

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[mayankmishra]

I started using Vim about 4 years ago. I exited today. Thank you, MIT.

[mnnptl]

Me : **Standing alone at a corner in a party**
Also Me : "They don't know I use vim"

[treeislife]

In the early 90s, I went to Northeastern U., just across the river from MIT. I took a similar class like this one. The lecturer was also a TA, however, I was taught to use Emacs and brainwashed to think that Emacs was the only thing (and Lisp) a programmer would need. I was too young to know about the Cold War between Vi and Emacs churches.

[Arkanjl]

Learning vim on a chalkboard, the madman

[lanavasilieva]

so they are sharing the sacred knowledge on how to exit vim... heretics

[BantuTu]

43:50 a prime example of how the most useful things are usually cloaked in an air of nonchalance, even in documentation.

[bew]

dwi and cw have another difference: cw is a single change, and repeating it with dot (.) will repeat the deletion and the inserted change. While with dwi, the repetition will only repeat the inserted text.

[whiskeytuesday]

Ctrl-[ is mapped to escape by default in vim, which means no annoying rebinding of esc on your os (leaving capslock free to be mapped to ctrl, as G-d intended.)

[tvguideondemand]

Change in character is one command I've been wanting for a while! So happy this exists. I've been learning Vim on and off for the last week and that was one I didn't know about. I'm glad I watched this.

[ianpan]

Even after I jump-shipped to Emacs, I still use the vi-emulation (a.k.a. evil-mode) because tbh, vi-style bindings has just become an intuition for editing code and text.

[deadmoroz]

Imagine having an editor so intuitive, that you have to watch a lecture in order to use it. Woah!

[Trazynn]

Oh boy, this reminds me of Starcraft players having to learn the 'Core' hotkey layout. They learned the game using keys that corresponded to the first letter of the unit ('M' = Marine) until someone figured out that you could just group them all on the left side of the keyboard ('A' =Marine) for faster controls.

[lenpalmeri]

I used vi alot in the 80's and 90's. Once you get the hang of it, you can move very fast through code.
Viva la vi !

[lucianodsb]

vim is that text editor you still learn new stuff over the years and improve, even organically by deducting stuff. Macros, the dot command, :!% command and finally :norm are the ones that got me convinced to use it for everything.

[giant]

Vim emulation with bindings in favorite IDEs is a really good thing. It's the best of both worlds, you have all the powerful abilities of Vim and the great tools of you IDE. I've been running like that for 2 years and it's great.


I also recommend using vimium for chrome and firefox. It has a lot of powerful vim commands and makes your navigation smoother.

[JohnDegen_aka_Jeehannes]

A really good intro to my favourite editor! I'm not a programmer, but I've used Vim for some 20 years. This is a comprehensive first dive.

[Yotanido]

Instead of rebinding caps lock, you can also use C-[ instead of ESC.
C-c works, too... sort of. There are some caveats with C-c and I wouldn't recommend using it. It breaks some plugins and might require some additional configuration to behave more similar to ESC.

[l_l]

*An entire lecture on VIM! You offended the entire Church Of EMACS!*

[StephenMarkTurner]

Back in the late 90s, the combo of vim plus an identifier lookup (like ctags) worked pretty well.

[dmsalomon]

Easily the best intro to vim I have ever seen