Vim Tutorial for Beginners

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  • Опубликовано: 8 мар 2022
  • Vim is a highly configurable text editor that you can use for software development or any kind of text editing. In this course you will learn how to use and exit Vim.
    ✏️ Florian Dedov from NeuralNine developed this course. Check out his channel: / @neuralnine
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Комментарии • 475

  • @aldrinseanpereira140
    @aldrinseanpereira140 2 года назад +1445

    finally... I can exit Vim 😂

  • @quincylarsonmusic
    @quincylarsonmusic 2 года назад +365

    Man. Florian teaches Vim so seemingly effortlessly. It’s clear he has a lot of passion for Vim and has put many, many hours into practicing and customizing his setup.

    • @NeuralNine
      @NeuralNine 2 года назад +13

      Thank you for your kind words Quincy :)

    • @abishekraju4521
      @abishekraju4521 2 года назад +5

      Hol' Up... There's flair on RUclips ??! Since when ?!!

  • @astratow
    @astratow Год назад +348

    0:00:00 intro
    0:01:19 why use vim? What can you do with it?
    0:07:19 installation
    0:09:00 basics
    0:09:44 how to exit vim?
    0:11:28 insert and normal modes
    0:17:28 line numbers
    0:20:00 relative line numbers
    0:21:08 various options
    0:22:11 .vimrc
    0:24:30 key bindings
    0:27:35 visual mode
    0:28:25 deleting
    0:28:34 yanking/copying/pasting
    0:31:10 changing/replacing
    0:33:35 navigating vim way

    • @Extorc
      @Extorc Год назад +14

      00:35:51 deletion of words

    • @kevinren3753
      @kevinren3753 Год назад +14

      0:47:00 intermediate stuff
      0:59:00 registers and macros

    • @hayouhayou2239
      @hayouhayou2239 10 месяцев назад +8

      1:04:53 Neovim and plugins
      1:11:28 Vim support
      1:14:06 Outro

    • @greenfrog8851
      @greenfrog8851 4 месяца назад +1

      you madlad!

    • @astratow
      @astratow 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Extorc thank you

  • @alijafarzadeh8267
    @alijafarzadeh8267 Год назад +24

    I am new at coding, and the way you explained was very convincing and inspired me to learn all this stuff faster. Thank you.

  • @phanikishanyt
    @phanikishanyt 2 года назад +15

    Thank you folks, vim is super handy and the more you excel the more it helps go through logs and understand the flow and debug the issues.

  • @josiasbudaydeveloper5864
    @josiasbudaydeveloper5864 Год назад +12

    This video is a public utility to our lives! I've watched just until 29 minutes, just for learning the basics. Thanks for this video!

  • @cebuanoninoy
    @cebuanoninoy 2 года назад +4

    I'm using vim in the basic way like at up to the 24 minutes of this video. With this tutorial I'm gonna use vim more often than I should this time, GOD willing. Thanks Florian and FCC for this wonderful tutorial on vim.

  • @nuwanhettiarachchi3023
    @nuwanhettiarachchi3023 2 года назад +83

    Loved Vim for 15+ years. Its a superb editor. Coupled with sed commands you can handdle large data sets for research easily. Many editors also provide vim flavor and that is a impressive. Thanks for making this video and hope many hardcore programmers will adopt vim seeing benefit. Disclaimer: Yes, its addictive. Its hard to get started as well.

  • @Blogdorf
    @Blogdorf Год назад +8

    Outstanding. The presentation is well-structured and smooth, not amateur. Listening is easy and captivating. I have to force myself to break away. I also go back to specific points in the presentation that I want to emphasize for myself.

  • @armandoleon9901
    @armandoleon9901 2 года назад +37

    Vim was the coolest thing I learned last year. It has improved my productivity. Pairing it with tmux is super cool too, as well as fzf to fuzzy find and open files via the terminal. Getting use to the keys at first takes a while, but consistent practice or forcing yourself to code/write is what worked for me. There’s some cool tricks too. I think learning the basics is enough and you can pick up those tricks along the way by watching RUclips or looking online. Configuration is a hill to climb itself, but :h for the win. What helped me was looking at how others set up their configs via their repos.

    • @sorvex9
      @sorvex9 2 года назад +3

      Just get lunar vim and you would have saved yourself for most of the trouble

    • @hispantrapmusic301
      @hispantrapmusic301 10 месяцев назад

      @@sorvex9what’s the difference?

    • @distant6606
      @distant6606 6 месяцев назад

      @@hispantrapmusic301 hes referring to the difficulty of getting vim/nvim on par with an ide. stuff like lsp, file explorers, etc. If you re new to vim learning both the binds and how to configure vim is kinda hard, so a lot of people use vim distributions (think about it like linux distributions) which basically are preconfigured setups that include all the "goodies" out of the box. lunarvim is a famous distribution that is visually appearling, has lsp preconfigured, a nice file explorer, and nice keybinds to get started with.out of the box vim is not great.

  • @user-hx7jc6go4x
    @user-hx7jc6go4x 4 месяца назад +1

    Very nice. Clean, precise, no waffle, and no irritating music or distracting animations. Why can't all youtube tuts be as good as this?

  • @begriddled
    @begriddled 2 года назад +4

    Really useful. I use vim quite a bit but only in the most basic way. I've been through this at double speed and need to go back over stuff (of course) - I'm sure I'm going to be using it more, and better, now because of this. Thanks.

  • @valentinoerrandonea2045
    @valentinoerrandonea2045 Год назад +2

    i've been using the stuff i learned here for 4 months and it has really improved my coding! thank you!

  • @haraldurkarlsson1147
    @haraldurkarlsson1147 2 года назад +12

    I think most younger folks that grew up in the modern era may not realize that the early computers were all operated from the keyboard. The Apollo landing computer only had a 3 by 5 keyboard (0-9, +, -) and some seven other main keys (CLR, PRG, ENTER, RESET etc). Hence was natural to find short-cuts for typing in commands quickly - an art that vanished with the emergence of the mouse (a concept Xerox invented and Jobs adapted in his Mac computer).

  • @JacobMoen
    @JacobMoen Год назад +18

    The biggest reason for why you'd want to learn to use a text editing environment like Vim or Emacs is that using the keyboard allows you to get the commands into your muscle memory. It's like playing an instrument. After training, your fingers automatically perform complex motions without you thinking about it. That's something that you will never ever be able to using a mouse and menus. I am an Emacs user, but I am watching this to learn Vim (read Neovim) because that's the only thing that I can make run on my old and seriously weak Celeron based laptop.

  • @ajaysinghrathore1940
    @ajaysinghrathore1940 2 года назад +53

    Never thought I would see a 1 hour tutorial of a code editor
    Edit: holy shit! Never knew I needed this tutorial! Gonna help me a lot. Thanks dude

  • @deepdive429
    @deepdive429 2 года назад +2

    Finally I can save and exit from vim successfully.
    Thanks It's very useful now I can continue with vim for my daily editor.

  • @tigana
    @tigana Год назад +4

    I started very briefly on Sublime Text as a teen and then used vscode ever since. Really excited to try this

    • @scarthebadguy
      @scarthebadguy Год назад

      Yeaaa I love sublime. Using it currently, I dropped vscode for sublime

  • @e555t66
    @e555t66 Год назад

    Thank you very much. I discovered vim 2 days ago and I already love it.

  • @Zakaros1000
    @Zakaros1000 2 года назад

    I just buy the vim master class tutorial from udemy, after following some youtubers and developers talking sweet of vim after you get use to it. After watching several free tutorials in youtube I decided to buy the course and give it a try

  • @RishabhJain-pk8ty
    @RishabhJain-pk8ty Год назад

    Got everything I needed as a beginner from a single video. Big Thanks :)

  • @SebasSBM
    @SebasSBM Год назад

    How curious: during years I have been looking forward to make my own IDE mirroring Vim behaviour (or at least fantasying with the idea), then *I find out you already did so*. Impressive, most impressive.

  • @jareddunlop8411
    @jareddunlop8411 2 года назад +22

    This is great! What I have been looking for about a few weeks now. I am an extremely slow navigator, mostly because I have a movement disorder. VIM helps me close the gap and probably widen it in my favor from Devs that are quick with their hands. I have been reading so many articles and tutorials. I have been combing VIM help system (Which has a lot of good stuff to get back to later) first I need to get up and running in VIM to use as a basic/lightweight IDE for HTML, CSS, JS and Rust, and once it is useable I can dive in and learn. VS Code is so bloated with stuff that gets in my way and it feels like a waste of time to learn when it seems clear VIM is way more versatile, especially when getting into embedded systems with Rust. I have been dipping my foot in Linux (mostly Ubuntu since v6, almost 20 years now)
    Just need some functionality that is not included in VIM with out some additional plugins, but I don't see anything geared to starting that even gets into that stuff, that people probably need to make the initial move.

  • @wypimentel
    @wypimentel Год назад +3

    I've watched I think 3 vim tutorials, every time I learn something new, now I learned the ci", ci) ci}
    Very useful, thanks a lot!

    • @CodLiv3rSid
      @CodLiv3rSid Год назад

      hey could u link me all those tutorials ?

  • @sergmont
    @sergmont 5 месяцев назад

    this was useful. Thanks. Was hoping to learn a bit about how to add plugins or more complex vim configurations, but I'll look for that elsewhere. Thanks a lot for your time of making this video.

  • @Kevinschart
    @Kevinschart 2 года назад +1

    as a person who works all day in excel and hates to use the mouse i appreciate the ability to menu dive and call features with the keys

  • @badreddinehamid2377
    @badreddinehamid2377 Год назад

    the first 8 min of this video motivated me so much to watch all the video in one day

  • @clustersnake
    @clustersnake 2 года назад +1

    Now this is something I've been wishing for a long time!

  • @willywallace
    @willywallace 2 года назад +1

    Great video, thanks for sharing, I'll try to use Vim in my daily basis, I am an iOS Developer and XCode started to include Vim as editor so I want to begin using it.

  • @tomate3908
    @tomate3908 2 года назад +4

    Omg, this is exactly what I needed, thanks a lot guys

  • @amphibia95
    @amphibia95 2 года назад +1

    This was an excellent tutorial! I've learned a TON of stuff about Vim! Thank you so much Florian!

    • @MrsSashkina
      @MrsSashkina Год назад

      Hi, I want to ask:
      Is it able on Windows/Subsystem for Windows (I haven't watched video btw)

    • @amphibia95
      @amphibia95 Год назад

      @@MrsSashkina Hey there. Yes, I believe it is possible. I've tried it on Debian WSL on Windows 11 and was able to follow the video without any issues.

    • @MrsSashkina
      @MrsSashkina Год назад +1

      @@amphibia95 Thank you so much!
      I had very nice video on my native language, but some things didn't work on Subsystem (Ubuntu by the way), so I wasted a lot of time. Thank you so much!

  • @tigermachine9229
    @tigermachine9229 Год назад +1

    Thank you for this awesome guide, I love to learn new tools and this will be very handy for me in my learning process.

  • @edwinboon9574
    @edwinboon9574 8 месяцев назад

    This is awsome. I want to learn vim because I'm tired of VS code being slow as ****. Great course so far and can't wait to get better at it and use it on a daily basis at work

  • @kenjikurizon
    @kenjikurizon Месяц назад

    It helps me to learn more advanced vim tricks. I was suck with vim motion for months.

  • @DavidBerglund
    @DavidBerglund Год назад

    I've used vim for years but never bother to learn that many of it's features. Learned a few new tricks here!
    One thing I never new about was the register for yanked/cut strings, but even if I yank say 3 lines, only the latest shows up in the registry? Deleted (or cut) lines can pile up. I thought I could yank a bunch of lines and then use them later, which could be handy.

  • @salomoncancholaespinoza6392
    @salomoncancholaespinoza6392 Год назад

    Thank you so much for this video, it really helped me to understand better the use of this text editor.

  • @noobgamersland6969
    @noobgamersland6969 Год назад +1

    Starting learning because of college course... Ended up loving VIM

  • @Part-Time-Larry
    @Part-Time-Larry Год назад +3

    I only used vim because I'm in the terminal so much, but now I'm determined to make vim my primary editor for c programming.

  • @landonlandon2251
    @landonlandon2251 2 года назад +74

    We need more outcomes based tutorials like this to on board more users into vim. Can you please update description or place syllabus and time stamps within comments?

    • @mb_mobile49
      @mb_mobile49 2 года назад +6

      I agree, this video should have timestamps since watching the entire session in one sitting is not likely.

    • @MaxAlonso
      @MaxAlonso 2 года назад +2

      I will also like to see timestamps, it will make easier to re-watch the beginner intro.
      Tambien me gustaria que agregaran timestamps, seria mas sencillo revisar las intrucciones para principiante.

    • @e555t66
      @e555t66 Год назад +3

      The idea is to get wet and not drink from the firehose. Do it in chunks if you are new, over time this should be rewarding.

    • @MaxAlonso
      @MaxAlonso Год назад +1

      @@e555t66 I'll give it a try

  • @RajeshKannanrk
    @RajeshKannanrk 2 года назад +1

    Thanks Florian and freecodecamp for such a wonderful session 🥳😍

  • @rahulsaha2859
    @rahulsaha2859 2 года назад +1

    FCC is a magician .. just today I was having difficulty exiting VIM
    Damn ... Here you are ... Now i will be an. Expert user 😁😁

  • @Khigha87
    @Khigha87 2 года назад +6

    What a Legend! Thank you for this vid. Just wrote my first program using VIM, feeling like a badass coder for real! It doesn't work though lol, busy debugging. Many thanks FCC and Florian, very well explained. I would be keen to watch a vid or read up more on the plugins you use in vim and why if you ever make such content, will keep an eye out on your channel and on here. I ❤FCC 4 EVA!!!

    • @MrsSashkina
      @MrsSashkina Год назад

      Hi, I want to ask:
      Is it able on Windows/Subsystem for Windows (I haven't watched video btw)

    • @SreenikethanI
      @SreenikethanI Год назад

      @@MrsSashkina yes, it works on WSL

  • @sujalsamai6459
    @sujalsamai6459 2 года назад

    Absolute legend of a channel

  • @amiisomer9758
    @amiisomer9758 2 года назад

    Great. I have been looking for a vim tutorial.

  • @fabrice9848
    @fabrice9848 Год назад

    You definitely convinced me to check out your channel. Good job!

  • @AndresCordoba8
    @AndresCordoba8 2 года назад

    Amazing video on teaching Vim, thank you very much!

  • @aer0449
    @aer0449 2 года назад

    I was looking for this thank you so much guys ❤️

  • @mrECMAScript
    @mrECMAScript Год назад

    After watching 40 minutes I'm like a magician :D Thanks!

  • @khunemz
    @khunemz 2 года назад

    Just watched NeuralNine's videos!! Great tutorials keep doing

  • @adityaverma2496
    @adityaverma2496 2 года назад +8

    You are doing a great job free code camp
    Brilliantly awesome
    Keep it up ✌😊💕🤗🤗

  • @GetCTRLVideos
    @GetCTRLVideos 2 года назад +1

    Brilliant stuff! I am using Vim emulation for Visual Studio Code while I'm getting the hang of it. :D

  • @tinpham6413
    @tinpham6413 2 года назад +6

    I have used vim for a year right now and I have to tell you it kinda 'No Pain No Gain", first time i used this it kinda shoot me into the face but right I don't even to touch the mouse anymore

  • @__________________________6910
    @__________________________6910 2 года назад +3

    Florian Dedov the God of vim. Most of the time he use vim.

  • @gunthergumdrop9071
    @gunthergumdrop9071 Год назад +8

    Thanks so much dude, this was incredibly comprehensive and wasted none of my time.

  • @jupitersky
    @jupitersky Год назад

    I'm gonna get SO addicted to this...

  • @limitless1692
    @limitless1692 Год назад

    Thank You!
    You helped me alot to setup my first `.vimrc` configuration file for my VIM.
    I am so happy!!

  • @Extorc
    @Extorc Год назад +1

    00:35:51 deletion of words
    00:42:38 jumping between parenthesis
    00:43:46 jumping to next symbol
    00:44:24 deleting till symbol

  • @Ahurac
    @Ahurac Год назад

    Thank you for the detailed tuto, helped me a lot!

  • @worldboy9684
    @worldboy9684 5 месяцев назад

    This is simply a tutorial of the HIGHEST QUALITY, cudos, will most likely watch it a third time or more

  • @jfr213
    @jfr213 Год назад

    Everyone should try the undo tree feature, this is absolutely amazing.

  • @ilshatt
    @ilshatt 2 месяца назад

    I have no words, thanks you!

  • @nassdj8493
    @nassdj8493 Год назад

    What a relief... i finally jailbreaked from VIM, stuck for a while so i have to use my phone to google an escape plan 😄

  • @nikolaradovanovic4883
    @nikolaradovanovic4883 2 года назад +2

    I like VIM, but always used it for some quick editing, like config file change, and similar. What I want to know is how to create vim "profile" so I can jump to method declaration/definition (Python/C++) and also debugger integration, say with gdb/pdb. Can we get something on these topics? Many thanx, great video.

  • @MohitKhare
    @MohitKhare Год назад

    Thank you folks for this video.

  • @wp-wisdom
    @wp-wisdom 2 года назад +2

    This is what I needed!!

  • @Js-Lovers
    @Js-Lovers 7 месяцев назад

    Even there's lot of code editor like vscode, atom.. But VIM is one of the favorite editor for linux distribution❤❤❤❤❤

  • @yi-zhiwang6850
    @yi-zhiwang6850 Год назад

    Best Vim turorial ever!

  • @mahalkumar7245
    @mahalkumar7245 2 года назад

    Really love the content. Ever planning to do a Emacs tutorial with elisp.

  • @conradozanutto1546
    @conradozanutto1546 5 месяцев назад

    Brilliant tutorial! Thank you and congratulations!

  • @Glint190
    @Glint190 5 дней назад

    Thank you for convincing me to use vim

  • @chemistryman6053
    @chemistryman6053 Год назад

    very helpful for a beginner like me. Thankyou so much

  • @113_bachtiardanuarta_b2
    @113_bachtiardanuarta_b2 Год назад

    I recommend installing preconfigured vim like LazyVim to get started.

  • @usaidulu
    @usaidulu Год назад

    Thanks for putting it together... 👍

  • @realchoodle
    @realchoodle 2 года назад +1

    Timing is so great

  • @fabrice9848
    @fabrice9848 Год назад +1

    Very good Vim tuto.
    Do you plan to release another on Emacs?

  • @notelectrohead
    @notelectrohead 9 месяцев назад

    as an outsider, i can totally understand the power this tool possesses but it looks so overwhelming to get started with. i hope i practice and do more hands on to get used to it

  • @thepsychedaily7829
    @thepsychedaily7829 2 года назад

    Finally. I can actually use Vim now.

  • @Draft3r
    @Draft3r 10 месяцев назад +3

    The reason for hjkl was due to terminal compatibility back when Vi was written. The arrow keys had different mapping from terminal to terminal. Vim kept the mapping due to users base request, 😊

    • @kartikpandey8739
      @kartikpandey8739 9 месяцев назад

      So is it useful? I find it a bit overkill.

    • @Draft3r
      @Draft3r 9 месяцев назад

      @@kartikpandey8739 It is. Nowadays, especially when using laptop keyboards. You can get used to "HJKL" by using the keyboard-raised marker on the "J" as an anchor point.
      This is how I map it in my head:
      "J" Down is down. Easy to find by the raised bump
      "H" is left. Located left of the "J."
      "K and L" is Located right of the "J".
      When lost and not looking at the keyboard, I always feel for the "J."
      As from Vi/Vim and the command, it takes time, but it is easier to edit code/text than with the mouse.
      Here is a list of commands I use daily:
      :wq! exit
      : split split screen
      : vsplit vertical split screen
      wr replace word
      w to to next word
      b to go back a word
      >> to tab to the text
      ~ change case to Case
      0 to the beginning of the line
      % to the end of the line
      ddp to swap lines
      %d select all file
      v to select
      yy to copy
      p to paste
      u to undo
      best of luck

    • @distant6606
      @distant6606 6 месяцев назад

      If i remember correctly those keys were used because the computer vi was created in had arrows on the hjkl keys.

  • @dionusios05
    @dionusios05 7 месяцев назад

    Found a note about the Vim editor in the Codepen settings:
    Key Bindings
    I've been using Vim about 2 years now, mostly because I can`t figure out how to exit it.

  • @felipe2637
    @felipe2637 2 года назад

    Nice, now waiting for a vimscript course

  • @ritiknandanwar8198
    @ritiknandanwar8198 2 года назад +3

    for anyone who want to try vim, but have a windows (and dont want to install WSL , for whatever reason) , you can install cmder (it is like a terminal app) very good ui AND yes , vim is alrealdy configured in it, give it a try , it was helpful when i was starting out with vim

    • @vikku_19
      @vikku_19 2 года назад +1

      I use wsl 1 and it's pretty handy for me.

  • @chizomauzoma69
    @chizomauzoma69 Год назад

    thank you such much for this wonderful tutorial. please can we get a tutorial on Emacs? Thank you

  • @gruddy
    @gruddy 2 года назад +1

    What Software are you using to visualize pressing keys?

  • @timothycollins718
    @timothycollins718 2 года назад +2

    How l used to shut the whole computer just to quit vim 🤣🤣 thanks bro love this no more scared of vim

  • @muhammadayman9168
    @muhammadayman9168 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for the video!

  • @haraldurkarlsson1147
    @haraldurkarlsson1147 Год назад

    Great video but I would be easier to follow if you have your vrc file set to show the mode your in. Just a suggestion.

  • @testescripts
    @testescripts Год назад

    Very nice !
    Best vim course.

  • @user-fq2ty
    @user-fq2ty 2 года назад +3

    Now neovim does support lua language and since version 0.6 it includes a native lsp, blazingly fast

  • @monicabattacharya6416
    @monicabattacharya6416 2 года назад

    thanks for the advanced editor

  • @mateosepulveda8221
    @mateosepulveda8221 Год назад

    Thank you so much dude.... Helped me a lot

  • @skyyao4769
    @skyyao4769 2 года назад

    This is exactly what I need, thanks

    • @ganiti_314
      @ganiti_314 2 года назад

      could you install it?

  • @Abdulrahman-wo6wn
    @Abdulrahman-wo6wn 3 месяца назад +1

    Such a great video for free is crazy !

  • @gregory35665
    @gregory35665 2 года назад

    Would like to see video lessons on low code pega software and Salesforce, quantum computing

  • @thorsthunder
    @thorsthunder Год назад

    While wathing this, I have spent the past hour trying to figure out why you look familiar. I have finally found it.
    You remind me of Varga from breaking bad.

  • @gorgeousprincess332
    @gorgeousprincess332 2 года назад

    How am I supposed to use freecodecamp?
    Am I supposed to use an app or software and follow along with the videos?
    Or should I take notes?

  • @aljab012
    @aljab012 Год назад

    You can use Vim binding in Emacs

  • @piyushbhuva9975
    @piyushbhuva9975 Год назад

    great video guys as always keep rocking..

  • @vanshajrai6089
    @vanshajrai6089 Год назад

    Awesome tutorial!

  • @mahdirezazadeh5076
    @mahdirezazadeh5076 2 года назад +1

    I'm glad I switched to Linux from Windows, and I should have done it earlier 😃

  • @Akosiyawin
    @Akosiyawin 2 года назад +2

    This tutorial is the hardest to learn vim!