Vim is a powerful editor.
According to stackoverflow's developer 2022 survey, vim is the 3rd most popular editor behind Microsoft's Visual Studio.
Vim is popular because it offers many advantages:
- All Linux machines have vi.
- The vim executable is compact, taking only 3.4M of disk compared to Microsoft Word at a whopping 2.11GB.
- Vim starts fast and loads files fast, even if the files are huge.
- Visualize your full document more easily by seeing more file text on the screen with vim than possible with JupyterLab, nano, or Microsoft Word.
- Edit your work with lightening speed once muscle-memory has been entrenched.
- YOU WILL NOT BE A MEME: Learn how to quit out of the vim editor
- Explain editor modes: normal, insert, and visual
- Traverse a file using vim key-bindings in normal mode
- Edit a file in --INSERT-- mode
- vim cheat sheet
- Why, of WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?
- vim documentation on-line
- Why and How to use vim as a text editor
- vim keypresses on stackoverflow
| N | keys | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | :q |
Quit vim |
| 2 | i j k l |
Move cursor one character at a time |
| 3 | `iTEXT:wq' | Insert text in --INSERT-- mode and save |
| 4 | gg and G |
Move cursor to top and bottom of file: |
| 4 | ggoTOP<Esc>:wq |
Go to the top of a file; open a new line; insert "TOP"; write and quit |
| 5 | gg & G & :wq |
Compare vim movements with movements in Linux command, less |
| 6 | $ |
Move to the end of the line |
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