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Community content - Turing student led session - co-led by Nate Venn and Hedy
Part 1. Week One: 4/18
. Why vim is a great editor:
a. code less, edit more;
b. save yourself from typos;
c. customize to your hearts content;
d. less mousing around, with greater navigability;
2. Advantages of knowing even a bit of vim:
a. third most used editor in the software industry according to the latest StackOverflow Developer Survey;
b. pairing with someone who is using vim;
c. most every computer comes with a built in vi editor in their terminal;
d. dotfiles and other customizations are more portable from one computer to another.
3. Walk through vimtutorial and vim adventures
Part 2: Week 2 4/25
Customize your Vim
1. If you are sold, we will help you set up a basic dotfile (it took Hedy three days to do it solo....don't suffer alone).
2. Advance vim techniques
- utilize the single key commands for editing
3. Useful plugins
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