Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

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Vim is a classic text editor that saw its first incarnation in 1976. Used around the world across most platforms, the ability to drop into a computer, open a command prompt and type `vim` is a simple yet powerful concept.

In this course we will take a tour of Vim, and learn the essentials you need to know to start being productive with this powerful text editor. We will learn about basic movement through a file in Vim without a mouse, loading and saving files, commanding the Vim editor, and get started customizing Vim to suit your needs.

Learn to Use VIM

The Vim editor is a text editor that lives inside of your terminal. Learn how to start Vim, and more importantly how to exit out of the editor! 

Intro to Vim

Learn how to efficiently move around Vim and stop reaching for your mouse

Moving around in Vim

Vim likes to keep you in normal mode at all times. But this can be difficult when trying to delete or change some text in a file. Thankfully Vim has build commands to make this a breeze

Vim's built-in commands

One of Vim's most unique features are it's different modes. Learn how to use these modes and speed up your editing

Vim's different modes

We've learned how to add text in Vim using insert mode, now what about saving that file? We'll go over how to use Vim's write command. 

Saving Files in Vim

We've gone over some of the basic Vim key commands, but what else can you do with them? We'll go over how you can compose them and to create more powerful commands

Combining Vim commands 

Sometimes you just need to copy some code from one file to another. Vim allows you to do this, in a quick and efficient way. 

Copy and Paste inside of Vim

Vim's defaults leave the editor in a pretty minimal state. Let's look at some of options we can configure to make Vim feel more like a traditional editor

Configure VIM

Now that you know how to enable features in Vim, let's store all of them in one place so we don't need to constantly set them all the time.

The Vim Config file

Vim has the ability to extend its functionality through plugins that can be installed either manually or through plugin managers. We'll setup the [vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug) manager to install plugins for our `.vimrc` 

Introduction to Vim Plugins

Vim 8's new `:terminal` command allows for asynchronously running a terminal job in a Vim pane or window. Learn the basics of this awesome new feature to get immediate feedback without leaving your editor or breaking your flow.

Run a Terminal Job Asynchronously in a Vim Window with Vim 8 :terminal

Every programmer starting to work in a *nix environment eventually finds themselves in VIM, the default text editor. Often by mistake! Because VIM lacks the typical polished GUI of normal programs, it can be hard to discover the correct sequence of commands to even exit the program. Once you learn how to exit VIM, then the next task is to also learn how to make VIM do what you want -while- exiting!

In this lesson we cover 7 different ways of exiting VIM, whether you are in EX mode or Command (also known as Escape) mode, whether you are editing a single file or several at once.

Exit Vim

The version of Vim that comes with your operating system is out of date.
You can find download instructions at vim.org for all platforms.
However, the easiest way to get the latest Vim on a mac is with Homebrew…

Install the Latest Vim on a Mac with Homebrew

Quitting Vim is something that thousands of developers struggle with every day. Fortunately, for the astute, Vim tells us how to quit right on the launch screen.

Quitting Vim requires a mindset shift. Where most editors open in a persistent insert mode, Vim defaults default mode is different. It's known as normal mode and it allows you to type commands. Quit is one of those commands...

Launch and Quit Vim

Help is always at your fingertips in Vim.
Vim's documentation is built right into the editor.
Use the `:help` as a first line of defense before Stack Overflow or Google and you'll be able to spend more time in the editor.

Anything you can do in Vim has a really great `:help` doc...

Find Help in Vim

You can open files into Vim directly from the terminal. This works for both single files and multiple files. In addition to reading these files into buffers, you can open them as splits or tabs. This video covers the basics of opening files from the terminal…

Open Files into Vim from the Terminal as buffers, splits, and tabs

Create new files in Vim by creating a new buffer and writing it to disk.

The `:new` command is used — in normal mode — to create new buffers in horizontal splits.
As an alternative, `:vnew` can be used create new buffers in vertical splits.

Create New Files in Vim

Save files in Vim using the write `:write` command in normal mode.
This common command can be abbreviated `:w`.
Use it in tandem with `:q[uit]` to save and quit simultaneously: `:wq`.
The write command can be used with a bang (`!`) to write over read-only files — `:w!`.

Save Files in Vim with the Write Command

Use the edit command to open files in Vim's normal mode.

Type `:edit`, leave a space and hit `<tab>`.

This brings up a mini file explorer that can be navigated with `<tab>` or the arrow keys...

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