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10. Make Vim Your Own With Maps

Maps I use

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Lessons

1 Why Vim 5 steps

Vim is ubiquitous Vim is keyboard-first Vim is terminal-first Vim gives you a language for editing text Vim has a high ceiling

2 Vim Is A Modal Editor 5 steps

"How do I get out of Vim?!" The meaning of "modal" Vim's modes Normal mode Insert mode

3 Basic Navigation 6 steps

Moving the cursor Navigating to specific lines Navigating within the current line Using a count to repeat motions Making bigger strides Jumping to matching characters

4 Basic Editing 5 steps

Inserting text Deleting characters Deleting lines Deleting within special characters Changing within special characters

5 Visual Mode 7 steps

What is visual mode? Visual line mode Visual block mode What can I do with visual mode? Changing the visual area Reselecting the last visual region Selecting text objects

6 Copying And Pasting 7 steps

A change in terminology Yanking and putting lines Yanking in visual mode The unnamed register Named registers The zero register The number registers

7 Undo And Redo 5 steps

Undo Redo Undo branches Time traveling with Vim Undo persistence

8 Searching 7 steps

Searching with Vim Jumping between matches Searching for literal text Search offsets Searching for the word under the cursor Case insensitive search Intelligently setting case sensitivity

9 Operators Motions And Text Objects 6 steps

Editing text with Vim is like speaking a language The structure of Vim's command language Operators Text objects — inner versus outer Vim's various text objects Motions

10 Make Vim Your Own With Maps 6 steps

Vim is extensible Fundamentals of mapping with Vim General advice on creating maps The leader key Leader isn't the only option Maps I use

11 Buffers 6 steps

Working with multiple files Listing your open buffers Moving between buffers A slightly easier way to move between buffers Jumping back and forth Deleting a buffer

12 Windows 9 steps

Windows are a viewport into a buffer Commands for opening new windows Two windows, one buffer Closing windows The most important thing to remember Navigating between windows Resizing windows Moving windows around Popping up a new window for quick notes

13 Tabpages 6 steps

Tabpages are collection of windows Other ways to create new tabpages Moving between tabpages Closing tabpages Reshuffling tabpages Tabpage mappings from my personal Vim config

14 Marks 8 steps

Marks User-defined marks Jumping with precision Marks across buffers Where are my marks set? Special marks: last change Special marks: visual selection Special marks: sentences and paragraphs

15 The Changelist Jumplist And Tag Stack 5 steps

Vim's built-in lists The changelist The jumplist The jumplist works across files The tag stack

17 Macros 5 steps

Macros are incredibly powerful Replaying macros What's in a name? You don't even have to record! Appending to macros

18 Ex Commands Addresses And Ranges 6 steps

Basic Ex commands Addresses Useful address specifiers Ranges Default ranges Visual mode and the range operator

19 The Global Command 10 steps

What is the global command? The inverse global command Useful Ex commands to use with the global command A better definition Chaining global commands Normal and the global command Acting on the surrounding lines The global command as a poor man's quickfix list Collapsing bullet points Tying it together with an advanced workflow

Practice

Scratchpad — fullscreen vim

Tips

Adjusting The Viewport Backward Search Basic Completion Better Cursor Visibility Building Numbered Lists Chop Rest Of Line Clearing A Register Confirming Substitutions Delete All Indentation Deleting Duplicate Lines High Middle Low Incrementing And Decrementing Indenting In Insert Mode Insertion With Counts Join Lines Jumping To Files Line Completion Line Length Guides List Occurences In Visual Range Open Window In New Tab Previewing Matches Putting In Insert Mode Repeatable Putting Repeating Last Inserted Text Repeating The Last Command Replace Mode Resume Insert Mode Reverse Lines In File Rot13 Searching Inside Visual Range Smile Start And End Atoms Start Of Line With Underscore Switch Case The Format Operator The S Key Two Windows One Buffer