Wizards Use Vim
Wizards Use Vim
About the Book
Wizards Use Vim is a delightful and fun introduction to the the amazing Vim text editor.
The book is at a very early stage and is an incomplete collection of rough drafts at this point. You can still join in early, get the book at a discount, experience how a book gets written, impact its development through feedback and admire how it slowly transforms from garbage to a beautiful emerald.
I'll expand on this as I continue writing the book :D
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Table of Contents
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A Note About How I am Writing This Book
- The Process
- Chapter Writing Status
- Ok! Sounds Awesome Jaime! But When Should I Jump In And Read?
- About The Author
- Once Upon a Time…
- Preamble
- A Note From a Friend
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The Book of Vim
- What is Vim?
- Why Vim?
- A Brief Note About the Conventions Used in This Book
- Give Feedback Freely!
- A Taste of Vim
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A Note About How I am Writing This Book
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Apprentice
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Here Be Dragons
- Why is Vim So Hard?
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Getting Started With Vim
- The Factions
- Your Vim Setup Throughout This Book
- Setting Up Neovim
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
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Tips For Learning Vim More Effectively
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
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Creating, Opening and Saving Files
- Summary
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
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Inserting Text
- Inserting Code a.k.a. Writing Code
- Correcting Mistakes
- Abbreviations. They Sound Boring But They Are Awesome
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
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Moving Around With Motions
- Moving Swiftly Inside A File With Vim Motions
- Moving Faster With Counts
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
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Operators
- Operator + Motion = Magic
- Repeating Commands With Dot
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
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The Vim Way: Apprentice
- Keyboard Superiority
- Modal Adaptability
- Composition. The Secret Language of Vim
- Congratulations on Becoming a Vim Wizard
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Here Be Dragons
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Master
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Copy, Pasting and Vim Registers
- Pushing the Boundaries of Copying and Pasting
- Cutting Stuff In Vim
- Vim’s Registers
- Copy and Pasting In and Outside Of Vim
- Pasting In Insert Mode
- Exercise Wizard!
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Undo and Redo
- Undoing and Redoing
- Undo Branches
- Persistent Undo
- Exercise Wizard!
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Visual Mode
- Selecting Text in Visual mode
- Visual Mode Is Upside Down
- Character-wise Visual Mode
- Line-wise Visual Mode
- Block-Wise Visual Mode and Multiline Editing
- Refining a Selection
- Copying, Cutting and Pasting in Visual Mode
- Exercise Wizard!
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Command-line Mode
- What is Command-line Mode?
- The Fundamentals of Command-Line Mode
- Powerful Multi-line Editing With Ex Commands
- Making it Easier to Hit Command-line Mode
- Exercise Wizard!
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Advanced Search
- It’s Magic
- Magic, No Magic, Very Magic, Very No Magic
- Refining Regular Expressions
- Making it Easier to Hit Command-line Mode
- Exercise Wizard!
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More Command-line Mode
- Substitute
- Global
- More Command-line Time Savers
- Exercise Wizard!
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Using External Tools From Within Vim
- Using External Tools
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More Inserting
- More Effective Insert Commands
- Autocompletion
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Window Wizardry
- Creating Windows
- Moving Quickly Between Windows
- Resizing Windows
- Moving Windows Around
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
- Tabs
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Browsing files
- Exploring Files and Directories
- Exercise Apprentice of Vim!
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Moving Around Files
- Jumping From File To File
- Jumplists and Changelists
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Reusable Editing With Macros
- Creating a New Vim Macro
- Macros in Action
- Editing Macros
- Saving Macros As Mappings
- Multifile Editing
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The Vim Way: Master
- Integration
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Copy, Pasting and Vim Registers
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GrandMaster
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Configuring Vim
- How Do You Configure Vim?
- The One Thing You Should Know: How To Define Your Own Key Mappings!
- Defining Your Own Commands
- The Leader Key
- Keeping Your vimrc In Check
- Update! Videos!!
- Curious About Setting Up Vim?
- Abbreviations
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Improving Your Mappings
- Remapping Motions
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Extending Vim
- Extending Vim With Plugins
- Get Yourself A Nice Colorscheme
- Essential Plugins
- Autocompletion
- Moving Around Code
- Searching In Vim
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Spell Checking
- Exercise Wizard!
- Integrating Vim
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Vim and Tmux
- What is Tmux?
- Installing tmux
- Tmux Basics
- Configuring Tmux
- Enhancing your Tmux with Plugins
- Creating Reusable Tmux Configurations with Tmuxp
- Continue Your Tmux Journey
- Terminal mode
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The Vim Way: GrandMaster
- Customization
- Extensibility
- Learning From Vim
- Yet Another Note From a Friend
- Afterword. Where to From Here?
- Contributions
- Acknowledgments (Thank yous)
- References
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Configuring Vim
- Notes
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