get-your-vim-on.md

Get Your Vim On

Rod Knowlton (@codelahoma)

Tulsa Web Devs - 8/20/2012

Last Updated: - 1/23/2013

First Things First

• Learn to touch type (can be done asynchronously)
• Read Your Problem With Vim is You Don't Grok Vi

Watch The Pros

• Derek Wyatt's Vim Screencasts
• Vimcasts
• Peepcode ($12 each)
  • Play by Play with Gary Bernhardt (well worth it if you also want to see some great git, TDD, and ruby foo)
  • Smash into Vim I and II - nice quick start if you're new to vim

Work Your Tuts

• Work your way through the vim tutor (available at the command line as vimtutor or within vim as :help vimtutor)
• Interactive Vim Tutorial
• Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
• Nettuts
• Vim University (mixture of free and paid screencasts/articles)
• Scripting the Vim Editor - 5 part series by Damian Conway on IBM DeveloperWorks

Play to Learn

• Vim Adventure - For the beginner
• Vim Golf - Experts win, but everybody learns

Sharpen the Saw (more reading)

• Seven habits of effective text editing
• Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought
• Vim Drills - weekly practice drills
• zzapper's Best of Vim Tips
• The Vim subreddit
• Other people's .vimrc files
• Learn to speak vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers!

Get Inspired

• Vim-creep: One User's Story of Learning Vim
• Vim Koans