Vim: The good parts

Mark Cabanes — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:55:02 +0000

Introduction

Vim is the dark side of the programming, you can rule everyone with vim.

Modes

Vim has several modes with different functions but these are the most commonly used.
The easiest way to know what mode you are in is by looking at the status bar at the bottom of the editor.

Normal mode

Normal mode is Vim's default mode. When you are in normal mode you can navigate, perform operations, and destroy your keyboard.

How to move

h -> move to left
j -> move to down
k -> move to up
l -> move to right

0 -> move to the beginning of the line
$ -> move to the end of the line

w -> move to the next word
b -> move to the back word
e -> move to the end of current word

gg -> move to the beginning of current buffer
G -> move to the end of current word

:q -> exit from the editor
:w -> save the editor

Insert mode

In this mode you can enter text, delete and edit the document.

Commands

i -> enter insert mode to the left of the cursor.
a -> enter insert mode to the right of the cursor.

I -> enter insert mode to the beginning of the line.
A -> enter insert mode to the end of the line.

o -> enter insert mode one line down.
O -> enter insert mode one line up.

Visual mode

In this mode you can select parts of the document, copy them, cut them, delete them and paste them.

Commands

y -> yunk the selected characters.
d -> cut or deleted the selected characters.
p -> paste.

Conclusion

If you learnt something from this article, please let me know in the comments.

Thanks for reading.

Move to the dark side of Vim

Mark Cabanes — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:56:48 +0000

My Experience

When I started programming my code editor was Vscode, although I already knew of the existence of Vim I did not know its advantages. One night I decided to remove Vscode from my computer and install vim, more specifically Neovim. In this post I am going to show you the advantages of this code editor and how to install it on your computer.

Advantages

At first Vim becomes complex to learn as you have many commands and keyboard shortcuts. But once you learn all these little things that make it difficult for this code editor and you become one with Vim you won't be able to come back from the dark side.

Install Neovim in Linux

If you have another operating system you can see how to install Neovim on its official website

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install neovim

Arch-linux

sudo pacman -Sy neovim

Fedora

sudo dnf install neovim

To open neovim in terminal use the command nvim

Configuration

To configure neovim you have to create the folder nvim in the path ~/.config/
Inside the nvim folder you have to create the init.vim file and in that file will go all your settings

Installation

Step 1

Vim-Plug is a module manager, which is used to install plugins.
To install it you have to run the following command in the terminal.

curl -fLo ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

Step 2

To install the plugins you must create the plugins folder in the directory ~/.config/nvim
To add plugins to neovim you must write to the init.vim

call plug#begin('~/.config/nvim/plugins')

" here will go the plugins 

call plug#end()

Step 3

Once the plugins are added restart neovim and in command mode you have to type

:PlugInstall

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Vim: The good parts

Introduction

Modes

Normal mode

How to move

Insert mode

Commands

Visual mode

Commands

Conclusion

Move to the dark side of Vim

My Experience

Advantages

Install Neovim in Linux

Ubuntu/Debian

Arch-linux

Fedora

Configuration

Installation

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3