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