Vim From Scratch

A video course on building a fully-capbable modern Vim-based IDE and expirience around it from scratch.

Hi, I'm Ianis 👋. I've been using Vim for more than 5 years now, and it still amazes me every day. I would want more people to use Vim, as it's such an excellent tool that makes you feel like a superman. The problem is that out of the box, Vim is not too impressive (compared to the modern IDEs), so a newbie has to spend some time setting it up properly.

And that is why I created that course.

In this screencast series, we will make a full a powerful IDE based on Vim from scratch. Along the way, we will slowly build the configuration from scratch. We will add all settings and plugins to transform it into a modern fully-functional IDE.

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Course Agenda

1. Intro. Why Learn Vim in 2019?
2. Basics. Navigate, edit. Learn open and quit Vim ;)
3. Configuration and plugin management
4. Text motions, objects and operators deep dive
5. More essential plugins
6. Buffers, tabs and splits

7. Dot operator and macroses!
8. Search and replace
9. File navigation: NERDTree and FZF
10. Linting and fixing: Ale
11. Auto-completion with deoplete
12. Let's setup Vim for TypeScript and React
13. Let's setup Vim for Ruby And Rails

F.A.Q.

Who is this course for?

This course is mostly for newbies and people who would like to try Vim but is also wanting to be productive from the day one.

How is it different from the others?

The purpose of this particular course is not to go into all the details an perks of Vim (while we're going through the basic concepts as well) but rather to focus on building a working setup development setup so you can be productive as soon as possible.

What Vim version is used?

We are using the NeoVim which is a most modern and fast Vim implementation out there. But it is pretty much compatible with Vim 8+ (the difference is mostly in the inner implementation and some default configuration values). Everything you learn here can be als applied to Vim 8 or any other Vim out there.

Vim From Scratch Articles

Why Learn Vim In 2019?

So now that we have all those beautiful editors, is still worth it to invest in learning Vim in 2019? The answer is yes and yes of cause. In this article let me give some of the reasons why Vim is still the most productive editor for me.

5 must-have Vim plugins in 2018

In this article I would like to share 5 VIM plugins I can't imagine my development workflow without. The absolutely must-have Vim plugins.

Starting With Vim

Starting with Vim can be hard. Here is a list of advices for the beginners I wish I had when started myself.

Setting Up Vim For TypeScript

TypeScript is a transpiled language that allows using types in your JavaScript code (strictly saying it's a superset of JavaScript) and thus catching errors at compile time and making the code more reliable. Let's see what we need for a highly-productive Vim setup for TypeScript.