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Linux Foundation

Everything You Need to Know About Vim and Text on Linux

Linux Foundation via YouTube

Overview

Discover the essentials of Vim and text manipulation on Linux in this comprehensive 44-minute conference talk. Explore the fundamentals of working with text using Vim, and gain insights into a variety of useful tools such as uniq, sort, less, and cat. Learn how to search efficiently with grep, modify text streams on the fly, and acquire the necessary skills to confidently edit text on remote systems. Delve into topics including basic text operations, Vim navigation, visual mode, undo/redo functionality, buffers and registers, multiple viewports, copy and paste techniques, search and replace operations, text deletion, file management, and Vim customization. Additionally, examine other text editors and evaluate whether learning Vim is the right choice for your workflow.

Syllabus

Introduction
Disclaimers
Outline
Why do you need Vim
Basic stuff about text
Vim
Start Vim
Editing
Exiting
Movement
Visual Studio for Vim
Undo redo and repeat
Modifiers operators
buffers and registers
multiple viewports
copy and paste
search and replace
deleting text
ranges of text
write to a file
send to support
file status
selecting text
customizing Vim
highlighting
Vim utilities
Head and Tail
Sort and Unique
Cut
grep
pandok
other editors
should you learn Vim

Taught by

Linux Foundation

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