VI - VIM editor tutorial (part1)

[impamity]

thank u

[perazaroberto2]

how you skipe . dont explane nothing . .what comand is skipe

[desolation21]

Nice illustration!

[vamsiws]

nice yar..its very helpfull to me..Thanks Lot :-)

[LoliComplicated]

S doesnt stand for Search it stands for SED.

[gauravkataria1]

Thx the tutorial helped me in usig vim editor.. :)

[auv5]

@SeltsamerAttraktor You could do ZZ (without :) to quit and save too.

Also, @kw1ksh0t, even better, learn both! :D

[kw1ksh0t]

You should all learn vi over emacs because vi is on every UNIX system you will ever use

[paynnooll]

Thank you. This helps a lot. :D

[rohihi14]

I am Japanese.

I do not speak English.

But This is very kind!

Great! Thanks!

[SaschaHeylik]

Is there a difference between vi(default on ubuntu) and vim(obtained with apt-get) ?



[elem101]

@SaschaHeylik

yeah, vim is actually usable!

[SaschaHeylik]

@elem101 lol, yes Now I am using vim all the time (For C).

Btw, i wrote a toolkit with which you can easily realize AS/400 (IBM iSeries) style, console based menus.

Interested, anyone? I will release the sources, and maybe post a video demo.

Would be cool if others found it useful, and maybe helped extending it.

I will also be usable in shell scripts and python for those who use c. Message me for Source/Binarys/Tutorial if you don't want to wait for a video.

[MrDestinyschild]

Simple is Awesome! I've mentioned about the way you have explained!!! Well Done!!!

[amansiddiqi1]

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks!

[georun974]

Très bon tuto. Merci, ça m'a beaucoup aidé.

[decapattack]

Notepad++ !!!!!

[flasher555]

@decapattack

lol, try to run it on corporate *NIX server.

[jalvarado]

Thank you. I've always preferred other editors, but it seems I cannot escape vi. Thanks again!

[fatkasuvayu]

good tutorial, but i'm an emacs user tho, trying to learn some vim just in case if I need it. :-p

[scottishcluj]

good tutorial very easy to grasp thank you for the tutorial

[MailCenter111]

thanx for the very good tutorial :) merci !

[MailCenter111]

thanx for the very good  tutorial mercie ! :)

[mre1f]

A very helpful tutorial, thanks :D

[moaad25]

merci philotortoise pour la video, ça m'a beaucoup aidé pour comprendre vi.

[MissLadyboy007]

I like vim for writing scripts, but I use Gedit to edit bash and Python scripts. Good video.

[BadManneredCat]

In Ubuntu there's a great thing called vimtutor.

[ponizam]

i have a problem...when i press button 'i' to insert text,it doesn't work....

why????please help me....

[MrPignati]

@ponizam right-click after...

[nbhbh]

bdaaaaan

[lison4ik]

Thank you!!! it was very helpful !

[randomguy625]

VI ain't ugly

[cybergal99]

I found myself saying esc :w

[cybergal99]

good job though!

[maxludz]

hard to hear but good beginner video

[ART000747]

Thanks alot man, very well explained and the french accent is interesting :D

[lali71win]

Kool... gud intro on the subject..

[chrisll666]

now, I don't want to be rude or anything, but...

is someone talking here or is one of those text-to-voice software (a very good one)?

because the voice sounds little bit like a robot

[Obeleh]

@chrisll666

Its a French accent lol

[d3vii4nt]

ofc not u idiot, can't u hear him breath? since when do robots breath? cunt...

[robinmitra1]

i couldnt quit out of it lol but now i know how..thanks man!

[goyocode]

So helpful, thanks a lot.

[SeltsamerAttraktor]

:wq? wtf? try :x

[philtortoise]

both work, and I had to choose one for this tutorial. To me it seemed easier to remember because it combines :w and :q

[LilSnyperX]

@SeltsamerAttraktor :x? wtf? try ZZ

Clearly there are multiple ways, a tutorial doesn't need to clarify every single option available.

[SeltsamerAttraktor]

@LilSnyperX Yeah and that's why the shortest way is the one that should be mentioned. 

[kmav81]

great hack, enable cheats and easter eggs by replacing vim binary with below text file

#!/bin/sh

# activate Meta Control mode

emacsclient -a '' $*

[Becken04]

That was so helpful. thanks alot mate!

[frakturfreak]

:q!

emacs

:-).

I didnt want to insult anyone. Just choose the editor you like most.

[philtortoise]

funny...I actually thought about doing this tutorial because I was looking for an emacs tutorial!...

There was none at the time, and I thought 'I know VI, I can make a tutorial the way I would like to have one' ...

[F00dTube]

@frakturfreak We are talking about an editor here, not an operating system :p

[KelvinNg88]

good video, but terrible sound. I was using my headphone and the sudden hiss almost made me deaf +_+

[swiftpro120]

merci beaucoup, you saved my life!

[infernobegins]

What a beautiful French Canadian accent!

[jawnsondotcom]

Thanks!

[dyer85]

Nice tutorial!

Just thought I'd point out it's a bit easier to do a search-and-replace throughout the file by using "%" instead of "1,$"

:%s/foo/bar/g

[Polyron]

no offense but when vi start I usually have to terminate it with kill -9 ...

[calrogman]

:q!

[dionyziz]

Try ZQ

[pinkunath]

simply awesome

[azizvertigo]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks

[VirtualBiz]

PhilTortoise, if you can make some time free, please drop a video on how to configure Vim to achieve such results. I downloaded Omnicompletion, and than things get fuzzy to me. Also if you can write an article on your site, please let me know. Cause this is really awsome. Emacs fans really hate you with this video :p

[mekoka]

vim productivity tips for beginners:

1- don't memorize the basic commands, instead do the the vimtutor 3 to 4 times a week for 2 weeks (15min).

2- go to command mode with ctrl-c or ctrl-[ rather than with the ESC key

3- if you edit code, install the NERDTree plugin

4- when you have a chance, invest some time into learning touch typing and watch your productivity soar. touch typing works the same as tip #1, you do it everyday in small doses (10min) for 3 weeks and the magic happens on its own

[tcbig001]

how do you create the video, using VMware?

[philtortoise]

my PC run Ubuntu+ I used XVidCap.

I wish I had some spare time to do more videos...

[ish90an]

I am a complete newbie to using command line text editors, and this was the best tutorial I could have hoped for. Thanks a lot for putting this helpful video up.

[Musskopf]

i agree

[philtortoise]

Yes I am originally from France though I now live in Canada where my english-speaking library is being occasionaly patched. But the codebase is not that good ;-)

[Musskopf]

Curious, where's your language?

[izaak791]

where'S? do u mean what's?

I think he's french 100% sure becoz of the accent.

[izaak791]

Very good tutorial. Thanks!

[CTEKGUY]

Thank you for posting. Great tutorial! :)

[faircolor]

Very good tutorial. Thanks!

[thablackmarkit]

is there an editor, that doesent require extra typing, yet tab works when you hit tab (emacs).?

one thing Windows can do that linux cant, notepad.

[orgthingy]

vim is the best..

user-friendly

easy

yet, requires _Some_ learning curve :)

[Kristian6015]

good tutorial :)

[F00dTube]

The commands seem a bit of a hassle at first. and the vim learning curve is pretty steep, but once you've got a basic set of commands in clearly and start finding more and more of the functionality you will soon find out tha tyou can be much more productive in vim with a keyboard than in a normal graphical editing-tool.

[SleeplessDad]

Merci!, E'est tres bien. I learned a lot

[mzambo666]

Muchas gracias amigo!!!! merci beaucoup!!!!!

excellent l'aide

[pinkunath]

thanx a lot dude, u help me a lot

[vorojtsov]

Thanks a lot! It was very helpful!

[SJOERDONLINE]

it's not VI, it's VIM

[hitandyrun]

Pretty good tutorial, simple, but it shows you very basic commands in vim.

[TheYouuTubeRipper]

A quicker way to save and quit is ESC to command mode and then shft ZZ.

I find it quicker and easier.

[philtortoise]

Right, but I was not sure it would work with older versions; and for a tutorial I thought it better to focus on one way to do it.

[eneville]

using :wq teaches two things, :w and :q, using :wq or :wq! is better than ZZ.

[yyyhenry]

This is a great video! I've learned about how to use VI this semester already, but I really like your instructional style.

[philtortoise]

Thanks!