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Vim Diesel's OFFICIAL Vimtutor Let's Play/Commentary! (1 HOUR+ Special)

Luke Smith

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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Tools and practiceVim, Emacs and editorsThe shell and command line

Luke Smith walks through the official Vimtutor, explaining basic Vim commands, motions, and operators with practical commentary.

Watch me stream vim gameplay 24/7 on my OnlyFans link below, thirsty gaymers. Also, timecodes: DONATE NOW: lukesmith.xyz/donate 💰😎👌💯 WEBSITE: lukesmith.xyz 🌐❓🔎 Vim Diesel Let's Play Introduction Playing stupid in movement/WASD for gamers! Soydevs learn to exit vim with ZZ and ZQ. Noob way to delete stuff and move around zz, zt and zb to move the screen i for insertion Insert mode vs. Normal mode: The Magic of Vim Most important tip of mapping caps lock as escape How to go SANIC fast in vim with xset hacking! 🏃 Moving by paragraphs with {} a, A and I for inserting text in different ways Saving and exiting Literally sorting every line in vimtutor alphabetically for no reasons (based!) Deleting by text objects; operators and motions Counts for motions Deleting around and inside and () {} [], etc. LITERALLY TIME-TRAVELING IN VIM 😮 put or paste deleted text Using the system clipboard in vim or really neovim to copy and paste with other programs Replace command (mostly useless, lol) c to actually replace things the right way File status, using percentages to jump through the file, and gg and G Searching for text with / and ? (for it backwards) Using % to jump from parenthis and bracket pairs Substitute strings like with sed External commands and I learned vim on Windows lol Captain Kirk and learning visual mode THE MOST USEFUL VIM COMMAND: .!!! (PERIOD) NO WAIT, THIS ONE IS THE MOST USEFUL Replace mode vim does have a spellchecker! Now we learn copying and yanking Setting variables How a vimrc works and how to configure vim on startup, tab completion? WE DID IT REDDIT!

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What people say. Recommended as an entertaining and highly educational walkthrough of Vimtutor for beginners.

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Lets Play Vimtutor! Learned basic Vim commands and a bunch of extras in just this one video. A gold mine in my opinion, with plenty of humor.