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.

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.

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

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

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

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` 

Learn to Use VIM

Mike Hartington

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