Venturing into Vim: 4-Part Video Series

Remember how, in school, sometimes, the student sitting next to you was able to explain and help you understand some difficult concept more than the teacher? The reason is because, once you’re mastered a craft, it’s difficult to recall what personally gave you the most trouble.

From September to October, I embarked on a four-week challenge, which I call “Venturing into Vim.” After hearing countless extremely talented developers praise this seemingly decade-old code editor, I decided that it was worth a month of my time to figure out why so many people consider Vim to be the best editor on the planet.

If you happen to be in a similar position at this time, why don’t you come along for the ride? Over the course of four screencasts, I demonstrate every spec of information that I was able to soak up.

Along the way, you’ll learn:

• Why I now agree with the others in that Vim is one of the most fantastic editors on the planet.
• How to transform your view of a code editor, and why Vim itself is a language (luckily, a relatively easy one to pick up)
• All of the most important keyboard keys.
• How to create macros to record common text operations
• What are the various mappings, and why should you use them.
• The concept behind “buffers,” and how it relates to the editors you’re more familiar with.
• How to create a never-ending array of windows, for optimal editing.
• How to create custom commands.
• What are the various “modes,” and why are they advantageous to other editors.
• Why it’s important to develop the best .vimrc file (think settings page) that you can. We’ll create it together!
• And, most importantly, how Vim can allow you to massively improve your work-flow beyond what any other code editor is capable of.

Containing hours of video, this four-part video training program was recorded in HD, at 1280×720 using a nice condenser mic for optimal learning.

Should you also decide to dig into this editor, I hope you’ll find – as I did – that there’s absolutely a reason why Vim is considered to be the best editor on the planet: because it is!

P.S. You also mike like this marketplace tutorial and screencast on converting the most popular Vim commands and shortcuts to your favorite editor.