Everything You Need to Know about Vim and Text on Linux
summary
Covers concrete Vim workflows and Linux text tools: modal editing, buffers, registers, splits, mappings, composable operators (d3l, 5.), search/replace with regex across multiple files, yank/put, ranges and visual/column selection, vim -y and gvim for easy/GUI modes. Demonstrates piping and utilities like uniq, sort, grep, pandoc plus cut, head, tail, cat, tac for log and data work. Claims real wins: editing SQL with Vim + search/replace fixes a WordPress→Drupal import in five minutes instead of a day; notes GNU vs BSD tool differences.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:16Disclaimers
- 2:58Outline
- 3:35Why do you need Vim
- 4:57Basic stuff about text
- 7:35Vim
- 12:04Start Vim
- 12:18Editing
- 13:02Exiting
- 14:09Movement
- 15:03Visual Studio for Vim
- 15:22Undo redo and repeat
- 16:11Modifiers operators
- 16:58buffers and registers
- 18:12multiple viewports
- 19:35copy and paste
- 20:04search and replace
- 22:35deleting text
- 23:26ranges of text
- 23:39write to a file
- 24:05send to support
- 24:45selecting text
- 25:33customizing Vim
- 28:18highlighting
- 29:17Vim utilities
- 29:50Head and Tail
- 31:15Sort and Unique
- 32:02Cut
- 32:37grep
- 33:23pandok
- 35:23other editors
- 39:40should you learn Vim
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