Why Vim?

Why Vim?

Why Vim?

• It's powerful (modal editing, command composability)
   
• It's fun. No, seriously...
   
• It will live longer than you do
   
• It's not THAT hard to learn

Who the hell even uses Vim anymore?

http://www.askr.me/ruby

How the fuck do I exit this thing?

What's the deal...

...with modal editing

How to learn Vim

• Remap caps lock to escape
   
• Build your knowledge gradually
   
• Don't be afraid to make mistakes - undos are cheap
   
• Ask!

The future - NeoVim

• Massive refactoring effort to bring Vim into the 21st century
   

• Asynchronous process execution
   
• Msgpack API for integrating vim into GUIs (think Vim inside Atom)
   
• Built-in terminal emulator
   
• VimL to Lua transpiler
   
• More information:
  https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Introduction

Resources

• Practical Vim, Drew Neil
   
• Vimcasts
   
• Vimtutor
   
• Built-in help (:h[elp])

Blog posts

• http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/
   
• http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong/
   
• https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-433852f4b4d1
   
• http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/338tx5/vim/cqiyma2

Wanna try?

https://bitbucket.org/infinum_hr/dotfiles

 

https://bitbucket.org/infinum_hr/dotfiles/wiki/Setting%20up%20Vim

Questions?