ACSU Vim Workshop

Vim workshop hosted by ACSU.

Outline

intro
- who am I?
- keycaster
- spellcheck demo
- all experience levels welcome
- please ask questions
why text editors and why vim?
- universal across machines
  - my machine
  - VM
  - csug
  - etc.
- universal across languages
  - txt file
  - Markdown
  - Latex
  - Python
  - OCaml
  - x86-64
- fast!
the basics
- opening a file
- moving
  - arrows
  - hjkl
- moving multiple at a time
- quitting
- trying (and failing) to insert text: def hello(name): print "hello " + name
- entering insert mode + writing text
  - iaoAIO
- returning to command mode
  - esc
  - ctrl-c
- saving
  - :w
- more advanced motion
  - bwe0$
  - { }
  - gg G
  - linegg lineG :line
  - g;
  - f t F T ;
  - number + motion
- deleting + action motion pattern
  - x
  - dmotion, d$
  - dt" df"
  - dd
  - D
  - di" di' di( di{ diw
- changing c
- visual mode
- replacing
- undo, redo
- copy/pasting
- search
- search and replace
- misc
  - bash commands: .! and visual
  - ctrl-n
  - gq, J
- demo revisited
advanced
- .
- ctrl-A ctrl-X
- windows, tabs, and buffers
- registers
  - "ay
  - "ap
  - :registers
- piping into vim
  - ps aux | vim -
- ctrl-xe
  - for i in {1..10}; do echo -n "$((i + 0)) "; echo -n "$((i + 1)) "; echo -n "$((i + 2)) "; echo -n "$((i + 3)) "; echo -n "$((i + 4)) "; done
- macros
  - qq, @q, @@
  - increment list
  - ocaml copy paste
  - reversing words
  - recursive macros
- vimrc + options
- plugins
  - easy-motion
  - multiple cursors
    - run the file
    - add a bunch of sub asserts using ctrl-n
    - fix the order of the arguments
  - supertab
    - ocaml file
  - syntastic
  - vim-airline
  - tabular
    - tabularize.tex
      - Tabularize /&
    - tabularize.py
      - Tabularize /:
      - Tabularize /:/l0l1
      - Tabularize /:\zs
      - Tabularize /:\zs/l0l1
  - git-gutter
    - edit this file
  - nercommenter
    - comment spellcheck
  - nerdtree
  - color schemes
  - merlin
    - \t
    - merlinlocate
    - merlindestruct
  - eclim
- vimium
- tmux
questions
mention this repo + dotfiles

Key Casting

sudo apt-get install -y python-gtk2 python-setuptools python-distutils-extra libxtst6
git clone https://github.com/wavexx/screenkey.git
cd screenkey
./screenkey --no-detach -t 1

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ACSU Vim Workshop

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