Intermediate Vim

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Post by signa11 » Wed, May 01, 2019, 4:38 AM UTC

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by ryannevius » Wed, May 01, 2019, 6:01 AM UTC

I'm not sure I'd call any of this "intermediate" Vim. Most of it appears in vimtutor, and the rest in the "basic editing" portion of the reference manual.

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by knolax » Wed, May 01, 2019, 6:05 AM UTC

As a Vim user one of my gripes when first using Vim was how cumbersome the built in help files were. I guess that's why there are so many "vim cheatsheets" out there, the built in documentation is a pain to use.

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by zahreeley » Wed, May 01, 2019, 6:22 AM UTC

Great article

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by hyperpallium » Wed, May 01, 2019, 6:27 AM UTC

ryannevius wrote: post #2

I'm not sure I'd call any of this "intermediate" Vim. Most of it appears in vimtutor, and the rest in the "basic editing" portion of the reference manual.

Vim: difficult to learn, difficult to master.

Most of it is "intemediate".

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by dhotson » Wed, May 01, 2019, 6:33 AM UTC

Hey all, I'm the author. Feedback is welcome! :)

The reason I wrote this is because I've been pair programming quite a bit lately and also mentoring some new vim users—so I wrote this little guide to help vim beginners level up their skills a bit.

What I noticed is that a lot of vim beginners find composing commands and text-objects to be kind of mind blowing.. and even more experienced vim users mentioned that these were the things that made them have that "aha" moment and convinced them to learn more.

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by stevebmark » Wed, May 01, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

This is less than beginner Vim, certainly less than vimtutor, and far less than any other Vim tutorial I've seen. This makes the title feel like clickbait.

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by declank » Wed, May 01, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

I use Emacs/Evil for hobby programming and vi for quick edits on servers. Wish I had this guide years ago. Incredibly helpful. :)

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by dhotson » Wed, May 01, 2019, 7:02 AM UTC

stevebmark wrote: post #7

This is less than beginner Vim, certainly less than vimtutor, and far less than any other Vim tutorial I've seen. This makes the title feel like clickbait.

Hey yeah thanks, it's really difficult to know where to start and how much to cover in an article like this.

I think I agree now that the title isn't quite right—my intention was to help beginners get towards some intermediate topics.

Re: Intermediate Vim

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Post by mikekchar » Wed, May 01, 2019, 7:14 AM UTC

dhotson wrote: post #9

stevebmark wrote: post #7

This is less than beginner Vim, certainly less than vimtutor, and far less than any other Vim tutorial I've seen. This makes the title feel like clickbait.

Hey yeah thanks, it's really difficult to know where to start and how much to cover in an article like this. I think I agree now that the title isn't quite right—my intention was to help beginners get towards some intermediate topics.

What about "Towards Vim Fluency"? Just as click-baity, but maybe a bit more precise ;-)

BTW, even though I've used vim for a long time and consider myself fairly advanced, I had somehow forgotten about "I". You've saved me countless "^i" invocations... Wait... That's cording! It's cheating :-) (But it's OK because I'm a closet Emacs fan)