Vim

Vim (Vi IMproved) is a text editor based on the standard UNIX editor Vi. Its main feature is modal editing, which minimizes the amount of keystrokes needed for performing tasks, thus greatly reducing strain.

Vim Cheat Sheet for programmers

Learning Vim

• http://vim-adventures.com/
• Use hjkl, don't be a babby duck
• Use vimtutor
• :h
• Keep a cheat sheet, write down new commands you want to learn, keep only several or so commands at a time until you've learned them
• If you're partial to books, try Practical Vim

Vimconf

Well documented base to start out with: https://github.com/timss/vimconf

Plugins

Buffer Navigation

[EasyMotion] Spatial navigation, saves a lot of keystrokes.

[Tagbar] Tag navigation, requires a ctags package.

[CtrlP] Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, etc finder.

[Minimap] Minimap.

File Navigation

[NERDTree] Tree explorer plugin.

[CtrlP] Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, etc finder.

Task Automation

[DelimitMate] Auto-completes surroundings and provides bindings for navigating through them.

[Vim-Surround] Manipulates (insert, change, delete) pairs of surroundings.

[NERDCommenter] Manipulates code comments according to the file type.

[AutoComplPop] Basic pop-up keyword-based completion.

Code Insertion/Completion

[UltiSnips] Customizable snippet engine for boilerplate code time-saving.

[Syntastic] Syntax checking.

[YouCompleteMe] Advanced semantic code completion engine.

[Eclim] Code completion making use of Eclipse's engine.

Miscellaneous

[SudoEdit] Edit files using sudo or su or any other tool.

[Multiple Cursors] Sublime Text style multiple selections

Ricing

[LightLine] Light and configurable statusline/tabline

[Vivify] Color scheme editor for Vim

External Links

The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth

Learn Vim Progressively

Learn to speak vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers!

Vim tips and tricks - StackOverflow

Write code faster: expert-level Vim (Railsberry 2012) - YouTube