A Guide to Getting Started with ViM (Part 2)

In my previous article, I introduced ViM and some very basic commands to help you navigate text in NORMAL mode. Today, I'll be discussing copy/paste and undo/redo commands as well as find/replace (and spellchecking, as a bonus). However, before we get to these useful commands, there are still faster ways to move around in NORMAL mode, and …

A Guide to Getting Started with ViM

Preface

Why use ViM?

With the abundance of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editors out there, why in the world would anyone use a (predominantly) command-line interface with obscure key bindings and a notoriously steep learning curve? I'll try to give some reasons I've heard elsewhere, as well as my own reasons why I decided to …