Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction
ThePrimeagen provides a brief overview of the course, briefly introduces ED, and discusses the history of vim. The program that predates vim is vi which was written by Bill Joy for small systems on slow internet connections.
Why vim & Prerequisites
ThePrimeagen discusses some personal history with getting into using vim, what types of content is on their Youtube and Twitch channels, what type of person should take this course, and course prerequisites. Different types of vim are also briefly covered in this segment.
Terminology
ThePrimeagen discusses some vim terminology including files, buffers, windows, splits, and tabs. Other terminology including line numbers, current line, cursor, sign column, current mode, and the color column are briefly covered in this segment.
Course Overview
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to access the help menu, discusses abbreviations that will be used in the course, and gives an overview of the course. A student's question regarding what types of development can be done in vim is also covered in this segment.
Opening VIM
Opening vim & Editing Basics
ThePrimeagen demonstrates some basic movements including how to open vim, close vim, and switch modes. The different modes of vim including Normal, Insert, Visual, and Visual Line are also briefly covered in this segment.
Basic Navigations
ThePrimeagen demonstrates basic navigation including moving the cursor up, down, left, and right, recentering the screen, hopping forward by word, and hopping backwards. How to delete a single character is also covered in this segment
Delete, Yank, Post, & Visual Mode
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to delete a line, undo the last action, yank a line, paste, and the register is briefly discussed. Using visual mode to highlight code and use combinations of commands is also covered in this segment.
Insert Mode
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to go into insert mode, insert to the left and right of the cursor, and inserting new lines. There is a brief overview of all motions covered so far at the end of the segment.
Customization
Customizing vim View
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to execute commands including setting auto scrolling, deleting multiple lines, setting line numbers. Setting relative line numbers will display line numbers that are relative to where the cursor is currently located.
Customizing vim with vimrc
ThePrimeagen walks through creating persisting custom settings by saving commands to a vimrc that will automatically execute when a file is opened in vim. A brief overview of previous motions and how to access a list of available options is also covered in this segment.
Color Scheme
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to set vim's color scheme from a list of preset options. The chosen color scheme can also be saved for later in vimrc.
Files & Navigation - NetRW
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to navigate vim's default file system plugin NetRW. A student's question regarding how to navigate between the splits is also covered in this segment. Ctrl + w will access window mode and allow window specific commands to be executed.
Files & Navigation - Remaps
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to name remapped keys, set specific modes that will use the remap, and how to set what will be executed by the remapped key.
Files & Navigation - Edit
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to use the edit command to open and navigate files in vim.
Marks
ThePrimeagen briefly previews a more customized view of vim which uses the telescope plugin and demonstrates how to navigate files using marks. Marks will bookmark files for quick global or file level access.
Alternate File & Jumplist
ThePrimeagen does a brief recap of files and navigation, demonstrates how to quick switch to an alternate file, and how to use a jumplist. The jumplist displays a sequential list of previously accessed files that can be navigated through using Ctrl + o to go backwards and Ctrl + i to go forwards.
Recap
ThePrimeagen discusses previously covered navigation, vimRC, and file navigation. Student questions regarding how to change cursor thickness and multi cursors are also covered in this segment.
Plugins
Plugins
ThePrimeagen walks through installing vim-plug as a plugin manager and fzf.vim as a fuzzy finder. Both of the plugins installed are open source Github repositories. A brief recap of remapping shortcuts is also covered in this segment.
Installing a Theme
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to install ayu-vim as a color scheme and briefly mentions a few other popular color schemes including gruvbox and dracula.
Quickfix
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to search for, create, and navigate a quickfix list using ripgrep and fzf. How to search for and create a quickfix list with grep is also covered in this segment.
Offline Ordering with getqflist
ThePrimeagen live codes searching for and ordering the course lessons using grep and getqflist in lua. The example in this segment demonstrates the ability to create custom plugins to edit quickfix lists.
Search & Replace
ThePrimeagen demonstrates how to search in vim, navigate, highlight, and replace the results with regex. How to find and save the search results as variable is also covered in this segment.
Macros
ThePrimeagen live codes how to use macros to record a set of keystrokes and replay them for quick code repetition and editing large chunks of similar code. How to jump to the beginning of the line is also covered in this segment.
Registers
ThePrimeagen discusses registers as a key value store and answers a student's question regarding what Lua and neovim are. Registers can be selected using double quotes and yanked to edit the original macro.
Text Manipulation
Advanced Motions: Horizontal & Vertical Movement
ThePrimeagen demonstrates some advanced motions including delete and enter insert mode and more complex horizontal, vertical, and core movements. These complex movements can be used to quickly and accurately move throughout the code.
Advanced Motions: Jump, Delete, & Select
ThePrimeagen demonstrates more advanced motions including jumping by half a page, jumping to the next opening or closing curly brace, and deleting the content inside of curly brace pairs.
Advanced Motions: Paste & Move
ThePrimeagen answers a student's question regarding how to create a new line to paste on while in visual mode. More advanced movements including how to hold pasted code, utilize the system's clipboard, remapping in normal mode, and moving selected code snippets.
My First vim Plugin
ThePrimeagen live codes a scratch buffer vimL plugin. How to create a new buffer, set local options, and passing in the command to the systemlist. The setting nobuflisted will keep the files in memory, but hidden to increase the plugin speed.
What Makes a Good Plugin
ThePrimeagen discusses what an ideal plugin should be and how they should have quick and intuitive commands to allow for faster user actions.
harpoon
ThePrimeagen discusses an ideal vim setup using harpoon and vim-fugitive as examples. An ideal vim experience should have everything one click away and flow naturally.
