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# Intro to Vim
## Intro to Vim
## Why I use Vim
* Was using too many tools
* Sublime Text 2 for editing
* Putty for SSH
* git bash for git
* Cygwin for Rubt commands
* Can mostly be done in ST2, but with time invested. Restart with Vim
* "nerd cred"
* More importantly, server administration
* Vim (or vi) works **everywhere**, no matter how broken the machine is
* (emacs does not)
* Repetitive Strain injury - vim helps enforce better habbits
* After 20 years, people are still using it
* You have to decide what works for you
## Everyone's first Vim session
* Bash.org joke
## But how can we avoid this
* vimtutor - 30-45 minutes is enough to gain usability
* VIM Adventures - game that finally pushed me into learning
* Cheat Sheet - I still keep one printed off on a wall
* Focus on a small set - I picked five that I wrote down and learned each week
* and still do from time to time
## You will still struggle
* Some of the things I struggled with
* Copy and paste - very different idea, more later (and more advanced)
* Not using a mouse - if you don't plan on this, Vim is not for you
* Getting to the end of the line example
* I used shift+A<ESC> instead of $ for months
## Vim is a modal editor
* TODO
## You can move around
* Focus on home row. h, l to go left and right, j, k to go up and down
* Arrow keys are bad. Require awkward hand movements.
* Variants can get you around the screen faster.
* Screen: H, M, L
* Document: gg, G, :50
## And do things
* insert is a complete mode switch to let you type text, leave with <ESC>
* delete, change, yank act on things
* All of them put affected text into a place that can be pasted from
## On objects
* Everything is an object in Vim.
* Learning to utilize these is the key to effective vim use
## That can be modified
* inside - excludes the surrounding part of the object
* around - includes the surrounding part of the object
* till - from cursor to the specific character
* find - the same as till except for including the specific character
## And finally combined into a language
* das - includes the spaces. dis would not include the space after
# Example stuff TBD
# Other Talks
* Ben Orenstein - one of my favorite speakers. more intermediate than beginner
* Note comment on saving keystrokes
* Damian Conway - More advanced and neat plugins
* Chris Hunt - Shows basics of using Vim in combination with Tmux
* I do this
# Other
* Slides along with sample configuration available on Github