Vim, the text editor that will make you ditch your mouse
summary
Claims Vim will let a coder stop using the mouse and speed up long sessions by replacing shortcut chains with composable commands. Demo shows modal editing (normal/insert/visual), concrete motions like hjkl navigation and word/line operators, and examples of replace and repeat workflows plus a quick .vimrc and running Vim on Linux or Windows. Presenter builds live edits and navigation sequences that succeed, and warns it takes focused practice to gain the speedup.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Vim
- 1:36Why learn Vim today
- 4:37Vim philosophy and efficiency
- 6:53Vim as a text editor for coding
- 8:31First-time Vim experience
- 12:44Vim basics and keybindings
- 14:22Vim on Windows and Linux
- 16:04Final thoughts and Q&A
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