1 - Episode 1 - The Basics

In our 50-minute Vim tutorial, experienced Vim master, water polo captain, and former British intelligence officer Andrew Stewart teaches you the very basics of Vim. You don’t need any previous knowledge of Vim—we’ll take you from the beginning. You’ll learn to:

• Install Vim for your platform
• Use Vim for simple editing via SSH
• Configure Vim with sensible defaults (basic and advanced configurations are included in the code download)
• Use operators and commands to manipulate text
• Work with files, windows and buffers
• Install plugins

Released on January 06 2012 - 50 minutes

2 - Episode 2 - Intermediate

Part I of the Vim tutorial series introduced you to the basics of Vim: installation, basic editing, operators, and file navigation. This sequel will teach you to productively use Vim’s text editing, movement, and manipulation capabilities. In this 59 minute advanced vim tutorial, you’ll learn from experienced Vim master Andrew Stewart (voiced by Internet celebrity Dan Benjamin).

Topics covered:

• Precision movement
• Movement, selection, and editing with marks
• Text manipulation
• Search, replace, and execute
• Advanced configuration and abbreviations
• Navigation and manipulation with folds
• Auto-completion
• Command recording and playback
• Using and organizing plugins with Tim Pope’s Pathogen
• Installation and basic usage of top plugins: Git & Fugitive, Surround, Ragtag, Endwise, Rails.vim, Snipmate, tComment
• Reading, searching, and navigating the built-in documentation

Released on January 06 2012 - 59 minutes