Vim

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