Vim Essentials: Linux Editing Made Simple (Episode 1 - Introduction)

Welcome to the Learn Linux TV's Vim series! In this course, you'll learn everything you'll need to know in order to become productive with Vim, a popular UNIX/Linux text editor. You'll learn how to install it, how to use it, and some quality of life tips to increase your skills. In this episode, you'll get an introduction to Vim and learn some of the basics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 Switch to Linux with my latest book! (Available Now!) Thinking about making the jump to Linux? This step-by-step guide will help you choose the right distribution, install Linux with confidence! Purchase your copy here: https://learnlinux.link/switch-to-linux ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐧 Save on Linux Foundation Certifications Whether you're starting a Linux career or advancing your existing skills, Linux Foundation training can help you stand out in a competitive industry. Check out the available courses and certifications, and save! https://learnlinux.link/get-certified ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ Support the Channel and Get Awesome Stuff Books, discounts, shirts and more! Switching to Linux Book (New!) ➜ https://learnlinux.link/switch-to-linux Ansible Course ➜ https://learnlinux.link/ansible Linux Essentials Course ➜ https://learnlinux.link/linux-essentials eBook Bundle ➜ https://learnlinux.link/ebook-bundle Linux Merch Shop ➜ https://merch.learnlinux.tv Linode Starter Credit ➜ https://learnlinux.link/linode Paid Assistance ➜ https://www.learnlinux.tv/request-ass... ❤️ Support the Channel Enjoyed the video? Your support keeps this channel independent! Become a Channel Member (Ad-Free & Early Access) ➜ https://learnlinux.link/join Support on Patreon ➜ https://learnlinux.link/patron Other Episodes in this Series Episode 1 ➜ This Video Episode 2 ➜ Modes, Navigation and More: https://linux.video/vim-2 Episode 3 ➜ Buffers: https://linux.video/vim-3 Episode 4 ➜ Visual Mode: https://linux.video/vim-4 Episode 5 ➜ Splitting Your Vim Window: https://linux.video/vim-5 Episode 6 ➜ Tips, Tricks and How to Configure Vim: https://linux.video/vim-6 Video Specific Links Neovim (available for most platforms) ➜ https://neovim.io Neovim overview video (coming soon) ➜ https://linux.video/neovim Macvim (for macOS users) ➜ https://macvim.org/ Neovim Releases Page ➜ https://github.com/neovim/neovim/rele... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 Time Codes 00:00 - Intro (And some Tips) 02:13 - Installing vim on Debian and Ubuntu 04:49 - Installing vim on Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS (etc) 05:23 - Installing vim on macOS 05:45 - Launching vim on MacOS 05:59 - Neovim is worth checking out 06:28 - For macOS users, macVim is worth considering 06:53 - Why are there multiple "versions" of Vim? 07:32 - Launching Vim 08:23 - Opening an existing file in Vim 10:25 - A summary of vim's "modes" 14:21 - Saving changes in Vim 16:05 - How to Append in Vim 17:17 - Undoing changes 18:03 - Moving between the beginning and end of a line ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 Learn Linux TV Your source for Linux-related Fun and Learning! https://www.learnlinux.tv https://community.learnlinux.tv https://learnlinux.link/jay ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Affiliate Notice Some of the links mentioned in this description are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, it helps keep the content flowing. https://www.learnlinux.tv/content-ethics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Use Content Responsibly Learn Linux TV shares technical content intended to teach and help you, but it comes with no warranty. The channel is not liable for any damages from its use. Always ensure you have proper permissions, follow company policies, and comply with all applicable laws while working with technology. #linuxtutorial #DevOps #Linux