How I learnt Vim

Vim is my editor of choice, and it’s one of the first software I install on a new machine, with Git.

Here’s a compilation of all the resources that helped me to start with Vim, and understand its power.

There will be a lot of redundant information across the links below, but there’s a lot of stuff in Vim that worths repeating (and practicing) before really getting it.

References

• A byte of Vim
• Vim pour les humains (French)
• Vim galore

Why Vim?

• Il démarre Vim par erreur, ce qui se passe ensuite est tout simplement bluffant (French)
• The Vim learning curve is a myth
• Why I use Vim
• To Vim, or not to Vim
• Vim for people who think things like Vim are weird and hard
• Why Atom can’t replace Vim
• Top 10 pitfalls when switching to Vim
• The invisible interface (why Vim bindings are more convenient than mouse)
• Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

Tutorials

• A Vim tutorial and primer (really good starter)
• Getting started with Vim: an interactive guide
• Learn Vim progressively
• Learning Vim in 2014
• Vim: revisited

Unserstanding Vim

• The compositional nature of Vim
• The grammar of Vim
• Vim text objects: the definitive guide
• Learn to speak Vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers!
• Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi

Deepening

• Seven habits of effective text editing
• Vim regexes are awesome
• Vim splits - move faster and more naturally
• How I boosted my Vim
• Vim 101: the jump and change lists

Other interesting stuff

• Vim desktop reference (if you like cheat sheets)
• Unite.vim, the plugin you didn’t know you need
• What do you recommend doing instead of spamming h/j/k/l?

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