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Hello!
"Vim Reference Guide" is intended as a concise learning resource for beginner to intermediate level Vim users. I hope this guide would make it much easier for you to discover Vim features and learning resources than my own blundering experience.
To celebrate the release, ebook version is free to download till 31-Mar-2022:
* https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/vim_reference_guide
* https://leanpub.com/vim_reference_guide
Some of my other ebooks and bundles are on sale and I'm currently creating short 1-3 minute videos to highlight Vim features. You can find these details in the above links.
Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/vim_reference for markdown source and other details related to the book.
Hope you find these resources useful. Let me know your feedback.
Happy learning :)
Neat stuff! Nowadays, I mostly use Cheatsheet[1] to quickly look up things I want to do, but resources like this are always nice for learning new stuff you didn't know about.
One piece of feedback is that I would include "+p and "+yy in the copy and paste section. I feel like that's the first place where people will go to look for "How to copy and paste using clipboard".
[1] https://github.com/sudormrfbin/cheatsheet.nvim
Hi, great work releasing this! Trying to explain vim concisely is always an interesting challenge and I had a great time reading your attempt in this book. I always find it really interesting on how people try to group certain vim functions in a way that makes sense to people that don't use vim.
Whenever I try to explain vim to other people, I always start super abstract, i.e 'vim grammar is all (count)? verb then object. Learn actions and then the movements to apply the action where you want'. I think you cover that idea pretty well in your 'Vim philosophy and features' section whilst not making it overly abstract and keeping it relatable.
Some things I noticed, you mention registers in the insert mode section before explaining what they are. It seemed odd to me that you used the word before explaining what it meant, but maybe it is unavoidable?
I also noticed you completely left out folds (z, :help fold). Personally, I aggressively fold code I'm not working on so I think they are super important :D. There was a plugin posted recently thats a cool alternative to folding though (similar to emacs narrow) [0] [1].
[0] https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim
This is a fine resource. For those who love vim already but want to really understand it this was shared by my team internally: https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore
The best thing about Vim is that you don't have to choose between Vim and an IDE! Any text editor or IDE that's even moderately popular will probably have a decent Vim plugin. The only downside is that you generally won't have access to Vim plugins (abolish.vim is the one I find myself missing the most: https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish).
Personally, I learned to use Vim via the VsVim plugin for Visual Studio.