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From WTF to OMG in no time
Jovica Ilic
April 2018 (7527)
This book covers the most important Vim concepts. Besides Vim, it also covers some of the best learning strategies known to me (the author), and which are proven to work.
Having an understanding of how our brain works, and being aware of simple but effective learning techniques, will help you to learn Vim (and any other topic) faster than ever before.
You need to have a strong enough motivation and wish to learn Vim. That's necessary. But it's not enough. Motivation is not the factor which will change your life. If someone is a fool and becomes motivated, he merely becomes a motivated fool. That won't lead to a positive change.
You'd have to be disciplined in going through the challenge of improving your Vim skills. This way you'll learn Vim quickly. But learning quickly is not equal to learning easily. You'll have to put in some serious work.
You might get stuck at some point. You might even think of giving up. You might think Vim is too hard. I'll tell you one thing: Don't wish Vim was easier, wish you were better!
This book is for everyone who'd like to learn Vim. Whether you're a beginner and you're starting from scratch, or a more advanced user, I believe that you'll find this book very useful.
All commands, shortcuts and examples in this book are tested using Vim 8. You're free to use different versions of Vim while learning (like gvim, macvim, neovim), but some shortcuts and commands might behave differently than those presented in the book.
That's why I recommend you simply use Vim 8 while learning from this book. Once you're done with it, you can think of moving to your preferred version of Vim.
Before we start with the real stuff, pay attention to the typographical conventions that are used in this book.
Esc - Indicates that the named key (in this case key Esc) should be pressed.
Ctrl-p - Keys separated by - should be pressed simultaneously. In this example, Ctrl key should be held down while the p key is pressed.
These are commands you type while you're in Normal mode. For example, command to delete four words is the command: d4w. The named characters should be entered in order.
You'll learn more about commands later. Now just pay attention to the format of this commands.
Example of command line command (enable line numbers):
:set nuThis command enables line numbers.
All commands starting with : should be executed in Normal mode. If you're in a different mode, press Esc before you type a command. Within the Normal mode you can run Ex commands. Normal mode is also known as command mode.
A code block will be used to show code samples, multiple commands and some examples. Here's an example of presenting the read command and its shorter version:
:read:rA fixed width font is used for filenames, code, variable names and commands.
There are commands shown in this format: :ju[mps]. This means that you can execute this command in two ways:
:jumps:juAs you can see, everything between [ and ] is optional.
Very often I'll use bold characters in words explaining commands. For example: The command to delete is d.
Bold characters in cases like this will indicate the command abbreviation, which should help you remember Vim commands easier.
Commands are case sensitive. If you see g in command, that's what you type. If you see G, it means you type capital G.
If some commands should be typed in a system command line, they will be shown in a block like this:
$ vimThis is how you start Vim from command line. Characters $ are used to indicate the command line. You should type everything after that - in this case vim.
Piracy of copyrighted material on the Internet is an ongoing problem. I do take the protection of my copyright and licenses very seriously. If you come across any illegal copies of my works in any form on the Internet, please email me at contact@jovicailic.org with a link to the suspected pirated material.
I will greatly appreciate your help in protecting my work and ability to bring you more valuable content.
I recommend you subscribe to my weekly newsletter Mastering Vim Quickly Newsletter available at http://masteringvim.com.
Every week I'll send you the best tips, tricks and news on Vim. Some of them will be from this book, but also lots of them are not covered in the book. Simply, there's too many things you can learn about Vim. That's why getting a tiny bit of knowledge once a week is a great way to steadily improve your Vim skills.
First time I saw an advanced Vim user working on his code, my impression was like "wtf just happened". He would edit his code in a way I've never seen before. Then, when I realized how easy it is to do this, I thought "omg I have to try this!".
That's how I came up with Mastering Vim Quickly: From WTF to OMG in no time.
If you have a problem with any aspect of this book, feel free to contact me at any time. My email is: contact@jovicailic.org. I'll do my best to address the problem.
There's so much you want to do in life, and so little time. It's the story of our modern lives. Now, you want to learn Vim. Congratulations for making this decision! Now think, what's holding you back from getting started? It's hard? It takes time? Effort?
Over the years, I have learned two uncomfortable truths related to learning. First: skills take time and effort to master. And second: many things aren't fun until you're good at them.
While learning any skill, there is a period of time in which you're horribly unskilled, and you're painfully aware of that fact. The same applies when learning Vim. This book presents my personal quest to quickly learn Vim, and as such, it will help you to acquire new Vim skills in record time.
One of the beautiful things about learning any subject is the fact that you don't need to know everything. What's important is that you only need to understand a few critically important concepts that provide most of the value. The same goes for Vim.
Mastering Vim Quickly is a set of foundational Vim concepts you can use to get things done. Once you master the fundamentals, you can accomplish even the most challenging Vim magic with surprising ease. And you will love it!
Over the past few years, I read several books on Vim, passed through hundreds of tutorials and tips, used Vim from a few to over 10 hours a day and coded in more than a few different programming languages. Along the way, I've collected, distilled and refined my findings into the concepts and best tips which are presented in this book.
If you invest the time and energy necessary to learn these concepts, you'll easily be in the top 5% of the human population when it comes to productivity in coding, programming and text editing.
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