Summary on Eleutian's vim tutorial

Eleutian gave a series of vim screencast tutorials , which I think it's good for beginners.

Here's summaries on the key points in his tutorials:

Tutorial 1

1. Vim is a modal editor. There are a lot of modes:

• Normal mode: Press ESC or CRTL+[
  
• Insert mode: Press i in normal mode
  
• Command mode: Press : in normal mode
• Visual mode: Press v in normal mode
• Append mode: Press a in normal mode

2. In command mode, "e" means opening a file and "w" means saving a file.

• :e filename : open a file whose name is "filename"
• :e! : reopen the current file; all changes are lost
• :w : save the current file
• :w filename : save the current file as filename; primarily used when a file is to be saved for the first time
  

3. Stay in normal mode, unless you're actively typing text.
4. To move around in a most efficient way use "h", "j", "k", "l" as left, down, up, right respectively.
5. Move more quickly:

• ^: Home; move to the head of the current line
• $: End; move to the end of the current line
• CRTL + D: Pagedown
• CRTL + U: Pageup
• w: Move to the next word
• b: Move to the previous word
  

Tutorial 2
1. Move the beginning or the end of a document:

• gg: Move to the beginning of the document
• GG: Move to the end of the document
• XGG: Move the Xth line of the document, like 10G(move to the 10th line)
  

2. Copy(yank), Cut(delete) and Paste

• yy: Copy the whole line
• yw: Copy the next word
  
• y$: Copy till the end of line
  
• x: cut the current letter
  
• dd: Delete the whole line
• dw: Delete the next word
• p: Paste the text that just deleted or yanked
  

3. Change

• cw: Change the next word
• cb: Change the previous word
  
• c$: Change till the end of line
• ct: Change till , like ctD(change till the first occurence of letter D)
  

4. Swap two consecutive letter: xp

Tutorial 3
1. Search

• :/<Pattern> : Search forward according to the <Pattern>
• :?<Pattern> : Search backward
• n: Go to the next occurence <Pattern>
• p or N: Go to the previous occurence <Pattern>

2. Find

• f<Symbol> : Find the first occurence of <Symbol>
• ; : Go to the next occurence of the <Symbol>
• , : Go to the previous occurence of the <Symbol>

3. Replace

• %s/<TargetString>/<SubstituteBy>/g : % means the range is the whole text, % means substitution, is what we are looking for, is the substitution for . Don't forget the /g. For example, %s/Good/Bad/g will substitute all ocurrences of "Good" by "Bad" in the whole document.
  

4. Find occurences of the word under the cursor

• # : Go to the previous occurence of the word under cursor
• * : Go to the next occurence of the word under cursor