Vim Novice Videos
Metadata
- Author: derekwyatt.org
- Full Title: Vim Novice Videos
- URL: http://derekwyatt.org/vim/tutorials/novice/#Welcome
Highlights
Paging - Moving the page up and down by full pages with CTRL-f and CTRL-b and by half pages with CTRL-u and CTRL-d. (View Highlight)
Cursor jumping to screen parts - Moving to the head, middle and last line of a screen with H, M and L respectively. (View Highlight)
Easy regular expression searching - The famous ‘*’ and ‘#’ keys for jumping by bounded regular expression. (View Highlight)
Start of Function or Class Jumping - Moving to the beginning of functions and classes backwards through the buffer with [[ and the beginning of functions and classes forwards through the buffer with ]] (View Highlight)
End of Function or Class Jumping - Forwards to the end of a function or class definition with ][ and backwards to the end of a function or class definition with []. (View Highlight)
Jumping to Matching Braces - The fantastic % characters. (View Highlight)
Marks - Basic mark functionality and how it works with m, ' and `. (View Highlight)
Joining - You can join lines with the J key but it will put a space at the join position, so if you don’t want that to happen you need to use gJ. (View Highlight)
The all-important gv sequence is also covered to help you re-select an area you just selected. (View Highlight)
How to navigate - CTRL-] moves you into a hyperlink and CTRL-T moves you back in your hyperlink history.
How (View Highlight)