• Introduction
  • What is Vim?
  • Vim is not.
  • History.
  • Vim ne Vi
  • How do you use it? (How do you eat it?)
  • Modular = Modes

• Philosophy
  • KISS.
  • Programmer Virtues.
  • Edit, Don't type.
  • Seven habits of effective text editing.

• The Zen of Vim
  • Control your energy. (Command line)
  • Don't waste your energy moving. (Command Mode)
  • Don't run through the valley, jump it. (Advance Command Mode)
  • Recycle, Reduce, Reuse. (Visual Mode)
  • Only record the essential. (Insertion Mode)
  • The one that repeats itself, loses. (dot and macros)
  • Beauty is essence. (Editing code)

• Seven habits of effective text editing.
  • Move around quickly.
  • Don't type it twice.
  • Fix it when it's wrong.
  • A file seldom comes alone.
  • Let's work together.
  • Text is structured.
  • Make it a habit (sharpen the saw).

KISS.

• Keep It Simple Stupid
  • Minimalism is beauty.
  • Write software that only manages text.
  • Choose portability over efficiency.
  • Every file should be a text file.

Programmer Virtues.

• 1. Laziness
  • Repetitive tasks must be automated.
  • Put your focus and attention in complex and interesting problems.
  • Let the computer work for you, after all, it is the computer!
  • Computer = Computing.

Programmer Virtues.

• 2. Impatience
  • Solve the task or problem as soon as possible.
  • Don't leave an unsolved problem for tomorrow.
  • Solve today, to relax tomorrow. :D

Programmer Virtues

• 3. Hubris
  • Try to make a good implementation.
  • A short code that solves a hard task, will always be acclaimed.
  • Good code has its consequences: Respect, opportunities and good future.

Don't type, edit

• Not typing is good. (Laziness)
• Living in Insert Mode is the biggest sin. (Laziness)

Move around quickly

• Navigating a text file is a common habit.
  Learn to browse while you jump text, without typing repeatedly.
  • Use /pattern to search and move to a keyword.
  • Use % to move between logic blocks and loops.
  • For repeating functions, words, and variables, use *.
  • Use ngg where n is the number of a line.

Don't type it twice

• Typing the same thing in insert mode, is like reinventing the wheel.
  
  • Use :s to automagically substitute a keyword in the entire file.
  • Use . to insert the last word written.
  • For inserting functions, variables, and words, that repeat a lot in the entire file, use C-N.
  • To insert files, directories, and paths, use C-X + C-F.

Fix it when it's wrong

• If you keep typing a wrong word or it repeats, it must be corrected.
  
  • Use :abbr Lunix Linux to fix a keyword in the entire file.

A file seldom comes alone.

• Every text file has another text file in common.
  Edit with various windows, tabs, and buffers. Divide and conquer.
  • Use C-w + s to divide the window area horizontally.
  • Use C-w + v to divide the window area vertically.

Unity makes strength

• Vim was made around Unix philosophy,
  make use of that text stream .
  • Use :r file to insert a entire content of a file to the current window.
  • Use :r ! grep 192.168.1.102 log to insert text from the stream of another application.

Text is structured

• In code and formal texts,
  the format and the order, matter more than the content of a file.
  • To format a text to the default setting, use =G.
  • To structure a text line or block, utiliza >>.
  • Inverse action of >>, use <<.