Latest change: Wed Jun 29 14:00:27 CEST 2005

=== Abstract

Vim has become *the* clone of the text editor "vi".
Almost every user of a free operating system
will get to know it at some point or other.

Vim starts up quite minimalistic, usually just
showing some tilde characters on the screen.
But it has a lot of power inside!

Real show stoppers are syntax coloring and folding,
but to show how to use these would take some time.

Many users do not know about these features, though:
abbreviations, prefix expansion, macro recording,
digraph input, filename completion, split windows,
help system (:helpg), text formatting, viminfo, and visual modes.

Goal:
After the talk everyone should know that you can do
more than insert and delete with this editor. ;-)

Knowledge required:  none.
this is for everyone who has a need to edit some text.

Sven   Guckes <ukuug2005@guckes.net>
Julius Plenz  <ukuug2005@plenz.com>

=== Talk on Vim in 2004

The year before has seen a talk on vim.
We will intentionally leave out everything
which had been mentioned in it, so if you
had been there you will see something new.
those of you who had not attended that talk
are advised to read up on the slides.

"Power Vim Usage - Tips & Tricks for Everyday Editing"
by Simon Myers Smylers@stripey.com (Donhost Project Management)
http://www.ukuug.org/bios+profiles/SMyers.shtml

http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/programme/paper-SMyers/Linux_2004_slides/vim_tips/index.html
 1 Intro
 2 Learning Vim
 3 Moving About
 4 Visual Mode
 5 Settings in .vimrc
 6 Indenting
 7 Indenting Done Right
 8 Pasting
 9 Filetype-Dependent Settings
10 Custom Filetype Settings
11 Easier Typing
12 Spelling Help
13 Working with Text
14 Spelling Checking
15 Reflowing Text
16 Vim in Mozilla
17 CVS
18 Working with Multiple Files
19 Loading Files
20 Repetitive Shell Commands
21 Complex Transformations
22 Summary

UKUUG Linux Conference 2004, Leeds, West Yorkshire
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/
Thursday 5th - Sunday 8th August 2004

=== Vim 2005

front slide:
Sven + Julius, email, link to this talk
latex+prosper?  tpp?  pure text?
or as an additional vim help text?

ideas:
features to show:

no changes!
positioning cursor  H M L
repositioning line  zz zt zb

copy + paste        yy p P

simple changes:
replacement         r (rX) R (Rabc) s (xi)
switch to insert 1  o+O
switch to insert 2  A ($a) I (^i)

easy deletions + changes:
deleting and insert D (d$) C (c$) S (0C)

filter:             :r!date !!date  vip!par
global+subst        :g/RE/s,foo,bar,

insert mode:
inline indenting    i_CTRL-D + i_CTRL-T
recalling data      CTRL-R % # : /

command line editing:  expansions of filenames,
                    CTRL-D, wildchar=tab, wildmenu
visual history:     ":history" + ":history /"
command line window :q
file bookmarks      :tag foo

splitting windows   :sp :vsp horizontal + vertical
scrolling sideways  zl + zh
    -> CTRL-W commands, :new, :close, rotate

virtual editing (set ve=all)
vimdiff

could take some time:
  abbreviations + mappings
  folding
  macro recording
  plugins
  syntax highlighting

first steps only?
abbrev:   words and phrases, URLs
mappings: (de)indent and reformat current paragraph
folding:  fold current/all/special paragraphs
syntax:   highlight special words (typos)
plugins:  suggestions?

last pages:
summary
plug     - for zsh workshop
thanks   - to all that helped
feedback - personally & via email!
links    - to docs etc

=== Why Vi?

general vi advantages:
- availability: ubiquitous! (well, almost)
- startup:  very fast
- visual:   minimal changes on terminal during editing
  good for use over slow lines
- keyboard: works without cursor keys and function keys,
  minimal keyboard (plain "us" qwerty) suffices,
  very good for touch typists
- modes:  allows prefix numbers and command combinations

downside:
- modal concept + command combinations
- cryptic command names
-> steep learning curve

Why Vim?  Improvements!

=== Extended Vi Cup

Movement:
Cursor:     h j k l
Start/End:  0 $ gm
Window:     H M L
GotoLine:   G gg
JumpWord:   W B E  w b e
FindChar:   fC FC tC TC , ;
Searches:   / ? n N
Paragraphs: { }
Sections:   [ ]
CurrWord:   * #
.
Undo+Redo:  u CTRL-R
.
Join/Sep:   J gJ r<ret>
.
Yanking:    yy Y yfC ytC
Deleting:   dd D d^ dw d3w dtC dfC x X - ddp
Pasting:    p P - "rp - xp
.
NumPref:    23G 42| 3yy 5dd 23p
CommComb:   y2w yfC ytC dip
Registers:  "yy$ "yp  vip"vy
.
Deleting:   D (d$) C (c$)
Replacing:  r R
Substitute: s S C
Comm->Ins:  a i o  A I O  s cc c3w 20s C S
Insert:     ^W ^U  ^P ^N  ^X^F
Visual:     v V ^V
VisualOps:  y d ! u U (vip!par)
Macro:      qCq@C, rek.: qqCj@qq@q  -  @q -> @@
Windows:    ^W + hjkl HJKL n s c
Ex:         :w :wq :x  :q! :wq! :qa! :e foo
            :new :only :sp :vsp
Buffers:    :ls :N :bn :bp :ba
            :b foo     :sb foo
Arguments:  :arg :next :prev :first :last :rew
            :n `find ...`