A powerful Text Editor

Getting Started §

• Slides What is Vim?

Overview §

• Vim Directory Structure
• Vim Commands
• Vim Plugins

Writings §

• vim and large files
• THREAD Vim Mnemonics
• Day 26 - Switch to Linux, Learn Vim
• Vim Improve Writing Experience 🆔 ld8l9o
• Preview vim markdown note file in an easy way
• follow wikilinks in vim

Vim Everywhere §

Tools §

• Vim in Obsidian with Obsidian Vimrc
• Vim in IntelliJ with ideavimrc
• Vim in Chrome with Vimium
• Vim in Firefox with Tridactyl

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Tipps §

Troubleshooting §

Write to log file with vim -V20vimlog README.md

Concealing Characters §

see concealcursor and conceallevel to hide characters.

See Vim Custom Markdown Syntax

Counting Words §

Count selected text with '<,'>write !wc -w -.

• Visually select a block of text and press :. This will enter Command Mode.
• Now complete the command like this '<,'>write !wc -w -
• write ! will write the selection to an external program
• the command wc -w - will tell word-count to count text from stdin wordwise

Spellchecking §

# download spell file
cd /usr/share/nvim/runtime/spell
sudo wget http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/de.utf-8.spl

Then you can :set spell! to toggle spelling in Vim on and off.

Autocommands §

" Remove trailing whitespace on save
autocmd autofixes BufWritePre * %s/\s\+$//e
" specify text width for markdown files
autocmd autofixes BufEnter *.md set textwidth=80