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• I asked for advice to find a 3-minute Vim command training circuit here.

  • Motions in normal mode:

    • hjkl for one-off movement. Use sparingly.

    • Word-wise motions. w [g]e b and their uppercase cousins W [g]E B.

    • Learn to use the Numbers. 5w jumps five words ahead.

    • / to find stuff. n to jump to the next (partial) hit. N to jump to the previous one.

    • * and # to jump to the next/previous occurence of the word under the cursor.

  • Edits:

    • Insert at beginning, Append at the end of line, ciw Change in word d]} delete until next sentence, or paragraph Substitute line with your Input...

    • . repeat last action

    • undo and <C-r> redo

  • Ex-Commands:

    • :s/find/replace find the word "find" and replace it with the word "replace", in the current Line

    • :%s//newword/gi - replaces the last search (with /) with "newword" for the whole file. The /gi - options make it that you replace all occurences (global) and that the replacements are case-insensitive.

    • :w write/save changes

    • :wq! the meme. Save and quit. Also ZZ.

    • q: what have I done? Ex-command History Mode. :q to leave again.

    • :buffers :registers :marks to See what you edit, what you yanked, and where you Markes stuff. (Also searches and last Ex-Commands)

  • Visual Mode:

    • v V and <C-V>

    • in visual Mode: other end of selection

  • There are too many things to list here. See :helphelp.

• Apparently the official docs are good: “nothing, absolutely nothing, beats the documentation itself”

• :vimtutor is the official tutorial

• https://vim-adventures.com/

• https://www.theviminator.com/

• https://github.com/Weyaaron/nvim-training

• https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Special:AllPages

• https://vimhelp.org/

• https://www.vimgolf.com/

• “Just play nethack.” (source) (Apparently it teaches you the movement keys hjkl.)

  • “hjkl are almost worthless compared to other means of navigation” (source)

• https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Edit-Speed-Thought/dp/1680501275

  • “As a long time Vim user, I also found the book Practical Vim very instructive. Not really suitable for beginners though.” (source)

• https://github.com/jmoon018/PacVim

• https://www.shortcutfoo.com/app/dojos/vim

• http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html

Vimium

Vimium is a Chrome extension that lets you control Google Chrome with vim-like keyboard commands.  It was used by some devs at Infer.

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