Vim Basics in 8 Minutes

rewatched this whenever I forgot something -amazing video!!!!! super organized!!!

Actually, the only editor that's guaranteed to be on any Unix system is ed (pronounced as the single letters the way vi is). 
ed is the "standard" Unix editor.
ed begat ex which begat vi so a lot of the commands are the same, except ed and ex are line editors.
I like the way ed doesn't take over my whole screen the way vi/Vim do.

Alright, I'm gonna touch some grass.

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My friend told me he'll pay me if I manage to learn Vim.
I've never earned so much for watching a 9-minute video. Thanks :D

esc isnt working

Do u know recognisance

Great video, new to linux and this helped me a lot, Thank you!

finally exited vim after several years, thank you!

I was stuck in vi insert mode for 20 minutes during solo practice class, thanks for your help!

how do i delete a letter like the first letter a in "how do i delete a the letter a"

Thank you for the video, but how to access help and create new files?

I bombed a Kubernetes Certificate test earlier this week, one of the places I wasted time & lost points was editing a deployment's memory reservation/limit. This alone would have... well I'd still fail, but by less.

Nice vid. Assuming /search/g is regex, the g isn't "greedy", it's "global". Whereas /(lol)+/ finds "lol" a greedy amount of times in a row (not globally), and /(lol)+?/ finds "lol" a "lazy" amount of times in a row (not globally). Then, of course, /(lol)+/g finds "lol" a greedy amount of times in a row, also globally (multiple instances of that).

Nice colorscheme, what is that?

For me, it was a good intro to Vim. Thank you.

Thank you for making the Vim basics very very easy. I learnt a lot in few minutes.

Best goddam intro to Vim I've come across. Sombrero 🤠

Great explanation. I remember pretty much every command you told.

you're so cute

thankyou

Nice

awful text editor

This was perfect thank you!

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Really useful quick intro, thanks

Awesome video. Just a note though it's not typically recommended to use arrow keys. H,j,k,l are preferred for line navigation though they perform similar function (entering arrow key in insert mode can lead to inserting strange characters and adding new lines unintentionally)

Who would ever guess, vim is not an alien 👾 thing

Solid solid, thank you.

I cant understand, why smb use as main editor vim. But for edit files at remote server its great thing! Video also great!

very simple and on to the point. Thank you!

Well done sir, thank you

Very concise and clear. Great job.

I've seen this video a couple of months ago and ended up falling back to nano, but I'm once again trying to use this as my main terminal editor, and I gotta say I really enjoy it, thank you for making such a consive video, that's what makes the linux community go forward.

I cant believe this video is upto 8mins, it seemed more like 2mins as it was really interesting to watch, I naturally like the simplicity of nano but because of you, I am gonna quit using nano and switch to vim. you should definitely make a part two.
Also, that joke about sticking a noob into a terminal running vim and them not being able to quit is soo true, faced it many times 🤣😂

i laughed so hard at "create secure password" joke, indeed before i started watching tutorials i wrote a secure password in terminal before quitting

Really helpful tutorial!

I'm going to where stereotypical hack clothes and use this with green text at school

it helped me a lot, thank you

Excellent tutorial. 8 minutes with a hefty ROI. Trying to get my Terraform cert - too much to learn, too little time...
Thanks David!

Great tutorial in 8 minutes!

holy moly, as a person that’s used non-terminal apps ‘n fat IDEs, this was refreshing! thanks for this.

i personally always thought it was some ancient thing with wonky commands... it seem i was thinking of emacs...

Shift zq - quit without saving
shift zz - save and quit

i would have only asked that you would have explained how the hell you use vim, because i fed it up at those parts