workshops/slides/vim/vim.md

title, author, theme, colortheme

title	author	theme	colortheme
RSA - vi improved	Malin	Warsaw	orchid

Myths, Half-Truths and Lies

• You can get vim-keys in other programs
  • Yea, nah
• vim [ is/ is not ] an IDE
  • UNIX is the IDE
• vim is hard
  • It's four commands!

Heresies

Emacs: "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor"

code, because everything is a web browser.

vim is a Language

• d$
• y$
• dp
• dip
• di[
• vi[p

Plugins: Just Don't

/home/ghost/.vim
|-- doc
|   |-- completion.txt
|   |-- manet.txt
|   |-- tags
|-- plugin -> /home/ghost/.dots/mess/vim/plugin
|   |-- completion.vim
|   |-- manet.vim
|-- skel -> /home/ghost/.dots/mess/vim/skel
|   |-- bindAnimal.tex
|   |-- bindArtefact.tex
|   |-- bindCharacter.tex
|   |-- wod_vampire.tex
|-- spell
    |-- en.utf-8.add
    |-- en.utf-8.add.spl
    |-- sr.utf-8.spl

Tricks

Remote Editing

vim scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt

File Navigation

vim .

Tabs

vim -p .bash*

Literally Anything

r!fortune