Vim Basics in 8 Minutes

Learn all the basics you need to start editing text in vi or vim.

0:00 – Introduction
0:53 – edit a file in vim (vim filename.txt || vi filename.txt)
1:12 – how to quit vim (:q)
1:50 – saving files in vim, and other ways of exiting
2:12 – what are vim modes (ESC/i)
3:14 – how to delete a single line with vim (dd)
3:30 – how to delete multiple lines with vim (#dd, e.g. 5dd)
3:47 – how to undo changes in vim (u)
4:06 – how to ‘redo’ changes (ctrl-r)
4:32 – searching text in vim ( /yourtext + ENTER)
5:52 – how to find and replace text in vim ( :%s/yourtext/replacetext/g (+c))
7:23 – Conclusion

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