Vim Part I

Why use Vim? (gaslighting myself to believe this is worth it)

• super fast
• incredibly configurable
• time savings by not switching to a mouse 🐁
• here to stay

Basic Vim Mode Switching

• i = enter insert at the cursor beginning
• I = enter insert at the line beginning
• o = enter insert at the line after the cursor
• O = enter insert at the line before the cursor
• a = enter insert after the cursor current position
• A = enter insert at the end of the line
• C = delete from the cursor to the end of the line and enter insert
• Esc = enter normal mode
• NOTE: you would want to remap this to something else like jj
• ctrl + [ = enter normal mode (the better way)

Moving Around

    k
    ^
h <   > l
    v
    j

• There are many ways to move around sentences with w, b, e
• Now lowercase letters will consider punctuation ie ,.!?;: as words
• The uppercase letters can be used to skip all that
• w = Forward to the beginning of the word
• W = Forward to beginning of the WORD
• b = Backward to the beginning of the word
• B = Backward to the beginning of the WORD
• e = Forward to the end of the word
• E = Forward to the end of the WORD
• NOTE: It is reccomended to disable arrow keys in your vimrc file