Everything You Need to Know About Vim and Text on Linux

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.