• It's fast

• It's fast
• It's ubiquitous

• It's fast
• It's ubiquitous
• Engineered for efficient text manipulation

Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

Write programs to work together.

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is the universal interface.

-- Doug McIlroy, inventor of Unix pipes

• Different execution modes, based on what you're trying to accomplish.
• In vim, typically:
• Insert mode (actual text entry),
• Visual mode (visual text selection),
• Normal mode (movement, commands)

From Normal mode...

• i enters "Insert" mode, at the current position
• I enters "Insert" mode, at the first position of the line
• a enters "Insert" mode, appending the current position
• A enters "Insert" mode, appending the line
• o enters "Insert" mode, opening a new line beneath the current
• O enters "Insert" mode, opening a new line above the current
• C enters "Insert" mode, changing from current position to EOL
• R enters "Insert" mode, replacing text as you type

From Normal mode...

• v enters "Visual" mode to highlight contiguous text ranges
• V enters "Visual" mode to highlight lines of text
• Ctrl-v enters "Visual" mode to highlight blocks of text

• From Insert or Visual mode, hitting Escape will return you to Normal mode

• Start typing
• If you need to move around, go back to Normal mode

• Home row:
• h - left
• j - down
• k - up
• l - right
• Ctrl-F - page forward
• Ctrl-B - page backward
• :he movement for more information

• :he invokes the help system
• :he <topic> invokes the help system with that topic
• Ctrl-] jumps to a tag
• Ctrl-t goes back to the screen from which you jumped

• By word: w, W, e, E
• Start of line/End of line: 0, $
• Start of document/End of document: gg, G
• To line number {N}: {N}G

• Search for next line with {searchpattern}: /{searchpattern}
• Search for previous line with {searchpattern}: ?{searchpattern}
• Go to first occurence of {character} in this line: f{character}
• Go to previous occurence of {character} in this line: F{character}
• t and T are like f and F, but go to character preceding

• Go to matching (brace, bracket, paren, quote): %

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

-- Larry Wall

• Bookmark a location: m{character}
• Go to a bookmark: '{character}

• Write/save a file: :w<CR>
• Quit: :q
• Write and quit: :wq or ZZ

• Copy/"Yank": y (yy to yank current line)
• Cut/"Delete": d (dd to delete current line)
• Cut/delete characters: x (current), X (previous)
• Paste: p (after current position), P (before)
• Undo: u

• Flip the case of the current character: ~
• Replace the current selection: r
• Substitute matched text: :s /{pattern}/{substitution}/{g}

• Move to the 4th word: 4w
• Move to the 5th occurence of "x": 4fx
• Yank the next six lines: 6yy
• Delete to the end of the 3rd word: d3e

• Most commands allow ranges over which they should operate
• Typically, it will be what you highlight in Visual mode
• You can specify it manually
• :{start},{end} {command}
• :% -- all lines in file
• :'<,'> -- between start and end of visual selection
• :3,15 -- from lines 3 to 15

• Execute a command on lines matching a pattern: :{range} g/{pattern}/{command}
• Execute a command on lines NOT matching a pattern: :{range} v/{pattern}/{command}

• Format/wrap the current paragraph: gqip
• Format the current selection: gq
• More: :he gq

• "Read" a file into the current: :r {filename}
• Execute an external program: :!{command}
• Execute an external program, redirecting output to this buffer: :r!{command}

• :{range}!sort

• :!ls

• :!tree {directory}

• :!php %

Or, add this to your vimrc:

• :autocmd FileType php noremap <C-M> :w!<CR>:!$HOME/bin/php %<CR>

• :!php -l %

Or, add this to your vimrc:

• :autocmd FileType php noremap <C-L> :w!<CR>:!$HOME/bin/php -l %<CR>

• :!phpunit %

Or, add this to your vimrc:

• :autocmd FileType php noremap <Leader>u :w!<CR>:!$HOME/bin/phpunit %<CR>

• Get pman: pear install doc.php.net/pman
• Use as keywordprg in PHP files; add this to your vimrc: :autocmd FileType php set keywordprg=/path/to/bin/pman
• Type Ctrl-k on a PHP function to get its man page!

• Most languages/formats already are supported
• Add :syntax on to your vimrc
• And filetype detection: :filetype plugin on
• And auto indentation: :filetype plugin indent on
• And support for any custom filetypes you install: :runtime! $HOME/.vim/ftdetect/*.vim

• https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
• Highlight some text, and press s{character}
• Favorites: quotes, parens, braces, backticks...

• https://github.com/godlygeek/tabular
• Align text on patterns

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540
• Create "snippets" of text, optionally with placeholders
• Invoke the snippets to reduce typing

• http://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/
• Show an outline of code elements, and allow jumping to their definitions

• Built-in support for tag files created with exuberant ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/)
• Use ctags-exuberant to create tag files for PHP (http://bit.ly/vim-mktags)
• Tell vim about your tags (:let tagspath = {tag path})
• :tag {tagname} to jump to a tag
• :stag {tagname} to open a new window with the given tag
• Ctrl-w Ctrl-] to open a new window with the tag under the cursor

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658
• http://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
• Opens a buffer showing a tree from the current working dir
• Explore the tree, open files, create bookmarks, etc.

• https://github.com/tobyS/vip/blob/master/.vim/ftplugin/php.vim (Tobias Schlitt)
• Most up-to-date PHP syntax, usually.
• Follows PEAR standards for formatting
• Has good folding rules by default

• PhpDocumentor for Vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1355
• Can automatically create docblocks for you, or on demand

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3171 https://github.com/EvanDotPro/phpcomplete.vim
• Context-sensitive code-completion for PHP

• https://github.com/weierophinney/paster.vim
• Paste file or selection to paste service of your choice
• Returns URL of new paste, and optionally opens browser window with it

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2423
• https://github.com/mattn/gist-vim
• Paste file or selection as GitHub gist; returns URL of new gist
• Can also do a ton of manipulation of gists

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975
• https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
• Work with and manipulate git repositories
• "I'm not going to lie to you; fugitive.vim may very well be the best Git wrapper of all time.'" -- Tim Pope, author of fugitive

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=69
• Create a customized "workspace" of files in a project
• Apply commands to trees in the project
• Much more

• vimwiki: http://code.google.com/p/vimwiki/
• vimtask: https://github.com/samsonw/vim-task
• vimwiki+vimtask: https://github.com/weierophinney/vimwiki/tree/feature/vim-task
• Vimwiki: personal, file-system-based wiki, diary/journal, etc.
• Vimtask: dead-simple todo lists
• Vimiwiki+Vimtask: nirvana

• http://www.vim.org/
• My vim settings: git clone git://mwop.net/vimrc.git
• Stuff mentioned today (and more): http://bitly.com/w5tKYU
• This talk: http://mwop.net/slides/2012-01-28-Vim/VimUnixToolchain.html

• http://joind.in/4769
• http://twitter.com/weierophinney