Mastering the Vim Language
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Chris Toomey talks about mastering the Vim language. Vim's core is the amazing command mappings and text objects that allow for countless combinations to define precise edits. Learn how to master the built-in commands, motions, and text objects, and even how to extend the Vim language for even more power!
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The thing thats special about vim as a text editor is that people who use it hold entire meetups about it
Is it just an incredible text editor or a software-based religion?
@@strictnonconformist7369 I would have said both, but vim is not so much a religion as it is a way of life
@@aprameyanaganur2934 ah so a cult got it
vim is for consistency in your writing or editing process. Say what you want about it but it’s usefulness cannot be questioned.
@@johnyepthomi892 totally agree. I myself use vim as my text editor (well, neovim)
He matched his shirt with the VIM logo :)
Congratulations your mastered in vim😂
@@azharsayyad8246 haha
LOL
good observation
You Vim does not edit text it edits users.
4:35 the language (basics)
5:36 repeatable & undoable
6:48 verbs/operators in vim
8:21 nouns in vim - motions
9:05 nouns in vim - text objects
12:18 nouns in vim - parameterized text objects (find/search)
16:33 where to learn/read
18:35 tips for mastering the language
20:35 relative number
22:45 visual mode is a smell
24:18 custom operators (from plugins)
24:42 tpope/vim-surround
26:02 tpope/vim-commentary
26:48 vim-scripts/ReplaceWithRegister
27:41 christoomey/vim-titlecase
28:21 christoomey/sort-motion
28:57 christommey/system-copy
29:52 custom nouns (objects)
30:03 michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object
31:08 kana/vim-textobj-entire
30:30 kana/vim-textobj-line
both requires kana/vim-textobj-user
32:15 ruby block
33:30 Finding more custom text objects
thanks
Cheers
Bless
awesome!
My man
Even 8 years later, people are still finding great value in these videos. Cheers, Chris.
This talk was a huge break through for me: "Vim is a language where operators act on text objects." BOOOM thank you :D
I just woke up from a nap, left youtube on and now im learning a strange language.
5 years later, and this is still great stuff, it's all still accurate and current, and I still learned something I didn't know. That's Vim, isn't it?
Harley Burton “it’s all still accurate and current”
Well it’s like 20+ years old 😂
I also learned new youtube shortcuts trying to apply the commands here
What a great dive into a Zen of VIm. And relative numbers is something that i was missing for so long not knowing it was there all the time
Talking on this subject, you have all the passion and enthusiasm and sincerity of a great artist talking about art.
At 23:53 -- "Relative number's got you covered, absolutely" -- that made me laugh a lot. 😀
Awesome talk: thank you! I've been using Vim for a few years and still learnt a bunch of stuff from this
Been using vim for well over 7 years now and still learned a lot from this. Like he said - never reach the ceiling.
I've been looking for a long time why I would have to learn vim and why people are so enthusiastic about it. This is the first video that explains exactly that instead of trying to convince me to use an archaic editor on my graphical OS. Very good video. Very clear. This makes learning vim a lot easier as well now that I understand this.
Same here. Although I felt that I liked Vim, I could never understand why people chose it over something like vscode. I suspected the reason people chose and bragged about using Vim was largely due to ego, but I am finally seeing a clearer explanation which makes more sense to me.
24:20 "Now we get into the fun stuff" he says, 20+ mins into an incredibly fun talk! Already know by this point that I'm switching to vim full time 💯
I have used vim for something around a year and a half and I love it, I knew with the diw and dip operations, but the cs" ' blew my head right off!
Vim is a great tool since .. ever. I woul add the 'z' core commands to the list of things I miss in every other editor I use. z puts the current line on the top of the screen. z- puts the current line as the last one of the screen. And z. scrolls the text so that the current line go the cneter of the screen. So useful for positioning text on the screen
@FichDichInDemArsch dont forget z. = zz but in half the time since you can hit z. almost at once ;D
I didn't know there is a duplicate of zt(top) and zb(bottom), which does the same thing you described :)
@@oredaze these 3 commands are there since the AT&T Unix System V in the 80's z. z and z-. There were no zt or zb so these may have been added later for some reason.
Such a great speaker -- very calming and straight to the point.
I love how passionate you are when explaining, thanks for the tutorial man
So clearly explained, very smooth presentation, talks about best practices, and core principles of vim
Biggest takeaways were working with text objects and making commands repeatable. Great video. Thanks!
just wow !
I've been using vim very casually here and there. I knew there was more under the hood but i wouldn't have thought that much.
Time to practice to learn and incorporate those !
I think I’ve watched this four times now, and I learn something new each time.
This is a great talk. The way you described what makes it worth learning is so spot on. It applies to use of emacs as well!
I've officially switched to (neo)vim this past week. My previous IDE of choice was IntelliJ IDEA so it was a huge jump and took me awhile to let go, but I finally did it and I'm so happy about it!
The ideavim plugin is great for IDEA. vim is great but its not an IDE, and sometimes you need an IDE.
I lean his indentation so much easy. Before I used to select the part and use > . But now in any part of the line just > and j or 3j (if need to indent 3 lines). Thank you!
Even after 8 years, this is still a great video (like the resources, Chris mentioned in the video). I‘ve watched it for about 4 times over the last year and every time it gives me some additional extra(I am using vim as my main editor for 14 years now). This is because it is packed so densely with information, it is almost impossible to get everything the first time. For a non native speaker, slowing down the video to 0.75 helps a lot 😉 Thanks Chris!
Excellent overview with demonstrations. I have been using vim for about 2 years but learnt a lot of cool ideas. Thanks for sharing your experience
This talk really gets into the soul of vim. Thinking about repeatabilty made a lot of sense.
I reckon that this video is the best intro to vim I've found. It worked for me, and I've shared it numerous times, I believe it takes people from "interested" to "all in". So well done!!
didn't know about the indent, entire custom text objects, was suprised to find out it works out of the box with vscodevim. thanks for this talk.
I watch it every months, and still have something to learn.
Not sure if you have found this out by now or not, but I seen you delete a character, then type its lowercase for an example.
If you hover the character, and hit ~ it will invert the case. It's pretty useful in my opinion!
Nice!
Thanks for the tip! Very useful!
Wow I hace being using gUl or gul, I didn't know there was a faster way of doing it
Also try to hover the number, any digit within it and type "Ctrl-a" or "Ctrl-x", this will increase or decrease entire number accordingly.
I was thinking can also be a cool feature to hover over word "true" for example, and be able to convert it to "false" :).
U for uppercase or u for lowercase works too. :-)
I've been using vim since 2012, and now, thanks to your presentation, I understand why.
Wow, I knew about "inner" only in combination with brackets etc., but didn't imagine it working with words and paragraphs. He is right indeed, there's no ceiling.
Best beginner vim video I've seen on RUclips
Simple and effective. This video totally blew my mind.
This is so good as a tutorial! I had given up because no matter how many people swore by vim, I could never remember a single command. I think this if finally giving me the intro I need to understand the logic of these commands and get somewhere without staring at a cheat sheet!
type _vimtutor_ in the terminal and repeat it 50 times until something sticks... that's what I did... :)
Great talk! I learnt so much. At 31:53 we actually do have language for a line, its called `_`. `c_` is shorter than `cil` and doesn't require a plugin (works with dot repeat too).
`cc` seems to work too
You can just use 'S' to substitute the entire line as opposed to small 's' that substitutes a character.
Best vim presentation I've com across yet!
Great video. Going back to neovim after a break (I mainly use it for keeping a journal now) in 2023 and this helped me remember some of the commands. Thanks!
I actually lost count how many times I've watched this presentation! It's what got me into VIM, big time. So, thank you, Chris Toomey! You do some good work, too, haha!
I have a little update on Tim Pope's Commentary plugin. It now uses a different syntax than when this video was made:
g + c + l = comment out a line;
g + c + j = comment one line down;
gcgc = uncomment(Uncomments a whole block of text if it was commented out in one motion, a paragraph, for example)
Many thanks for providing the presentation video, guys!
same here~
@nerd bruh, this shit is eternal, haha!
Started with VIM today. This is very informative. Thank you!
Great dude! Nice talk. Been using vim inside VSCode for a while now and didn't know about the dot operator. That is game changing
Yeah, I’ll be using that one a lot
I'm getting into managing Linux and open-source software so tutorials like this are invaluable.
wow, this is a super cool and easy-to-follow learner friendly introduction to the basics of Vim. Really thank you! Clap, clap, clap!
7 years after your video It is still crazy useful. Thanks !!!!!!
For me, the best Vim presentation so far. Thumbs up!
This is gold! Vi is almost 50 years old and still absolutely amazing. Object oriented editing! What!?!🎆
"Typing is not the bottleneck." I discovered this just recently. I've been focusing on speed, but in hindsight I didn't solve problems faster, but introduced bugs faster only to spend more time trying to solve them. Vim had me somehow realize this. After 20+ years of computers and now switching to Linux, these tools (vim, the terminal, cli tools, basically Linux in general) opens a new way to experience computers. Funny is I realized why do I need a dedicated IDE? Linux IS an IDE you configure entierly yourself.
Thank you! The "dot" command is magic!
Great talk man, I am vim user but I rediscovered power of vim by knowing vim better. Thanks buddy.
NOTE: I was so into the language I had tried to use some of them by mistake while typing this language. ;-)
very good talk. Good advice on sticking to the basics and going crazy on plugins
This was very useful, thanks Chris!
This is a great video! Thank you for all the tips.
Thanks, Chris. "It's a good day", as you put, to learn what you've shared on the vim language and its syntax.
So powerful. Thanks for this talk!
This is how people learn complex aerobics routines. I am determined learn and use Vim. thanks. Great talk/tutorial.
great talk! you made me realize I was using visual mode as a huge crutch!
Thanks man! Really good summary
Me : The last thing I need in my life is one more tool to learn, I should focus on solving problems, Sigh and clicks anyway.
Chris : 2000 commands memorizing 30 intuitive things
Me : Aight keep talking
Thanks for the help. I should have been able to grok most of these useful editing features myself, but never did.
I think any talk can never really do vim justice. You can’t know how powerful the commands can be unless you use them. That’s why I think anyone serious about programming should give vim a couple weeks of try. Vim is really different from any other text editor so you’re not going to be a pro on it in a day. In fact you’re probably not even gonna be able to move around probably for a couple hours at best but that’s fine. Just like you said, the effort really does pay off in the end
thumbs up for that title case plugin!
Really useful. I'm a linguist not a programmer and I use vim every day. I really like the idea here of vim as a language, and realized that's how I learn(ed) it - I think "change two words" and type 2cw automatically. I see the point about using text objects rather than movements though for the sake of repeatability - that's my big take-home from this video. Thank you!
+James Harland Huh, I didn't expect 2cw to work, but it does; I always use c2w
Yup, both work. I read somewhere about the logic being different, but they both lead to the same result.
@nerd Hey, yep, every day.
@@okuno54thank goodness thats much inline semantically with how i say it mentally in my head so i will definitely not be forgetting this. Ta
Very great technique and talk! It will be most effective if viewers are already familair and work with vim in day to day, this talk will refresh, recall, and make the foundation of vim for us much better.
amazing! i could 24h of this content in a row
Great video, good to know about visual mode smell
Title case is a move in a nice direction. Using VIM as a word processor for prose or LATEX is very nice and there are few plugins for this type of use.
+Rodrigo Camacho yeah, I think my days on Texmaker are counted.
Really good talk, thanks for the insight!
Thanks, i've learned the inner keyword that should prove very useful!!!!
Wow that that presentation is really thoughtful!
Excellent talk. Thank you!
This was very useful, thank you!
Brilliant presentation. I love vim.
Still one of the best videos I ever saw on Vim
Amazing!!! Thank you soo much!
The + register is the system clipboard, so you can paste from it into vim "+p or yank an inner paragraph into it with "+yip
You can find a second or nth instance of o with `2fo` or `fo`.
@@ProfesorCafe number
I just commited my heart to learn Vim, thanks Chris
I love your intro music. ❤
Awesome.
Thank you!
i'm getting little shots of dopamine and 'ah ha!' moments constantly while watching this. I'm going to commit to VIM, I love the idea of just thinking through stuff and not having to get distracted by bells and whistles, just pure efficiency...
As a new Vim user I loved this video, thank you!
Yeah that was an amazing talk. Thank you
This dude sold me on Vim. Gonna learn to use it!!!
I actually pressed b to wind this video back... I vote youtube starts supporting Vi commands!
Best talk about vim
Very useful!
I learn a lot, thanks!
loved the talk..
Great. These are really Master explanations.
damn i'm in love with VIM
Awesome talk!
A superb explainer !
... Now I get it. This is life changing!
Great video!
I use vim on vscode using an extension, it’s got the power of search and editing from vim as well as all the capabilities of vscode. Haven’t looked back since
Same here ✋🏼
I came back to this video after 10 months to say that after I've watched this video I started using Vim as a plugin for VS Code. It was a pain for the first month. But now I can't work without it. It makes my life as a developer so easier. I'm sure I'll be using it for the rest of my life. Love Vim.
And now I'm starting slowly transition from VSCode to real Vim with bunch of plugins.
@@serhiicho Have you switched from vscode to vim? And if so, what did you get from it?
@@tyafizi I didn't, still using VSCode with VIM plugin. It's easier for me