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Wizards Use Vim

Jaime González García

From the author that brought you the acclaimed series of niche and quirky JavaScript books, the half-elven ranger, deadly archer, master of the two-handed sword and dual scimitar wielder, protector of Veleiron, Falcon of the Crepuscle, silent death of the swamps of Zulk comes a new gripping adventure of epic proportions, love, betrayal and Vim

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About the Book

Wizards Use Vim is a delightful and fun introduction to the the amazing Vim text editor.

The book is at a very early stage and is an incomplete collection of rough drafts at this point. You can still join in early, get the book at a discount, experience how a book gets written, impact its development through feedback and admire how it slowly transforms from garbage to a beautiful emerald.

I'll expand on this as I continue writing the book :D

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Jaime González García

Software Developer and UX guy, speaker, author & defender of all things nerd

Jaime is a software developer and UX designer who loves building stuff. Sometimes to solve a problem, sometimes for the challenge, but more often because he just loves creating things for the sake of it. And the quirkier and weirder, the better. He specially enjoys mixing carefully crafted software with visually appealing aesthetics.

Obnoxiously joyful dude, fake extrovert, undercover nerd, Jaime works as a Front-end Software Engineer at Google. He spends part of his time as a Developer Relations in the Nordics developer community. He speaks at conferences, writes articles, runs workshops and talks to developers and companies about how they can do cool things with JavaScript. He also arranges developer community events in Stockholm as a way to support and encourage the thriving local dev ecosystem.

In his spare time, he builds his own products, writes the JavaScript-mancy series of books and blogs at barbarianmeetscoding.com. He loves spending time with his beloved wife Malin and son Teo, drawing, writing, reading fantasy and sci-fi, and lifting heavy weights.

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An Interview with Jaime González García

Contents

Table of Contents

A Note About How I am Writing This Book

  1. The Process
  2. Chapter Writing Status
  3. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  4. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  5. Chapter in Stage 2 - Draft
  6. Chapter in Stage 3 - Candidate
  7. Chapter in Stage 4 - Finished
  8. Ok! Sounds Awesome Jaime! But When Should I Jump In And Read?

About The Author

Once Upon a Time…

Preamble

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal

A Note From a Friend

The Book of Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. What is Vim?
  3. Why Vim?
  4. A Brief Note About the Conventions Used in This Book
  5. Give Feedback Freely!

A Taste of Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. More Productivity Plz!
  3. Apprentice

Here Be Dragons

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. Why is Vim So Hard?

Getting Started With Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. The Factions
  3. Your Vim Setup Throughout This Book
  4. Setting Up Neovim
  5. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

Tips For Learning Vim More Effectively

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

Creating, Opening and Saving Files

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. Summary
  3. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

Inserting Text

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. Inserting Code a.k.a. Writing Code
  3. Correcting Mistakes
  4. Abbreviations. They Sound Boring But They Are Awesome
  5. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

Moving Around With Motions

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. Moving Swiftly Inside A File With Vim Motions
  3. Moving Faster With Counts
  4. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

Operators

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. Operator + Motion = Magic
  3. Repeating Commands With Dot
  4. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

The Vim Way: Apprentice

  1. Chapter in Stage 1 - Proposal
  2. Keyboard Superiority
  3. Modal Adaptability
  4. Composition. The Secret Language of Vim
  5. Congratulations on Becoming a Vim Wizard
  6. Master

Copy, Pasting and Vim Registers

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Pushing the Boundaries of Copying and Pasting
  3. Cutting Stuff In Vim
  4. Vim’s Registers
  5. Copy and Pasting In and Outside Of Vim
  6. Pasting In Insert Mode
  7. Exercise Wizard!

Undo and Redo

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Undoing and Redoing
  3. Undo Branches
  4. Persistent Undo
  5. Exercise Wizard!

Visual Mode

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Selecting Text in Visual mode
  3. Visual Mode Is Upside Down
  4. Character-wise Visual Mode
  5. Line-wise Visual Mode
  6. Block-Wise Visual Mode and Multiline Editing
  7. Refining a Selection
  8. Copying, Cutting and Pasting in Visual Mode
  9. Exercise Wizard!

Command-line Mode

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. What is Command-line Mode?
  3. The Fundamentals of Command-Line Mode
  4. Powerful Multi-line Editing With Ex Commands
  5. Making it Easier to Hit Command-line Mode
  6. Exercise Wizard!

Advanced Search

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. It’s Magic
  3. Magic, No Magic, Very Magic, Very No Magic
  4. Refining Regular Expressions
  5. Making it Easier to Hit Command-line Mode
  6. Exercise Wizard!

More Command-line Mode

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Substitute
  3. Global
  4. More Command-line Time Savers
  5. Exercise Wizard!

Using External Tools From Within Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Using External Tools

More Inserting

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. More Effective Insert Commands
  3. Autocompletion

Window Wizardry

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Creating Windows
  3. Moving Quickly Between Windows
  4. Resizing Windows
  5. Moving Windows Around
  6. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

Tabs

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Browsing files

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Exploring Files and Directories
  3. Exercise Apprentice of Vim!

Moving Around Files

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Jumping From File To File
  3. Jumplists and Changelists

Reusable Editing With Macros

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Creating a New Vim Macro
  3. Macros in Action
  4. Editing Macros
  5. Saving Macros As Mappings

Multifile Editing

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

The Vim Way: Master

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Integration
  3. GrandMaster

Configuring Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. How Do You Configure Vim?
  3. The One Thing You Should Know: How To Define Your Own Key Mappings!
  4. Defining Your Own Commands
  5. The Leader Key
  6. Keeping Your vimrc In Check
  7. Update! Videos!!
  8. Curious About Setting Up Vim?
  9. Abbreviations

Improving Your Mappings

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Remapping Motions

Extending Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Extending Vim With Plugins
  3. Get Yourself A Nice Colorscheme

Essential Plugins

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Autocompletion

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Moving Around Code

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Searching In Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Spell Checking

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Exercise Wizard!

Integrating Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Vim and Tmux

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. What is Tmux?
  3. Installing tmux
  4. Tmux Basics
  5. Configuring Tmux
  6. Enhancing your Tmux with Plugins
  7. Creating Reusable Tmux Configurations with Tmuxp
  8. Continue Your Tmux Journey

Terminal mode

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

The Vim Way: GrandMaster

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman
  2. Customization
  3. Extensibility

Learning From Vim

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Yet Another Note From a Friend

Afterword. Where to From Here?

Contributions

  1. Chapter in Stage 0 - Strawman

Acknowledgments (Thank yous)

References

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