[NCLUG] Vim in September

Bill Cthulhu degutan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 23:14:30 MDT 2013


Hi All,

With Bob (the emacs fan)  out in september, I thought I'd talk about vim at
the september nclug, and maybe get people to learn to use more powers of
vim.

Please bring your vim enabled computer and we'll try to have some fun
learning together.

Here's a brief outliine of vim things that I've thought of...   Feel free
to send me directly:

* Your experience level with vim
* Pet frustration with Vim
* Specific questions about how to do something
* Cheer for a specific topic
* Suggest a new vim topic.

It will help me tailor this session to the groups needs.


Here's a brief vim outline of topics.

 Vim Outline


- Navigation
    * letters
    * words
    * 'paragraphs'
    * pages
    * by finding text (f, *)

- Overview
    - modes:  Normal, visual

- Editing
    * insert
    * change
        * replace text in place
        * search/replace
    * delete
    * Dot command

- SuperPowers
    * Dot Command
    * use bash from vim ->  :r !date
    * <C-a>, <C-x>

- Macros
    * Create
    * Run
    * Repeat
    * Edit
    * Save
        * http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros#Saving_macros

- Visual Mode
    * What's it good for?
    * Running macros in visual mode

- Resources
    * Vimtutor
    * vimkata
    * vimwiki:  https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

- Bill Tucker


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