How to Vim in 2023: Tips and Tricks

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This is not another tutorial on how to do some key combos or how to install plugins, its about using the plugins and everything together to have a complete experience! I hope you enjoyed it!
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@Ywz816 Жыл бұрын

Over the past 3 months you’ve inspired me to switch from vscode to nvim. I feel 3x faster. Just in time for ai to take my job 💀

@relaxingnaturevideos1203 Жыл бұрын

You feel 3x faster or you are 3x faster

@mixed_nuts Жыл бұрын

I just use Dance extension in vscode and create my own mappings

@eafadeev Жыл бұрын

I've done the opposite this week, to me copilot support is better in vscode so far and compensates for the relative slowness of vscode.

@Danielo515 Жыл бұрын

Copilot works in nvim

@eafadeev Жыл бұрын

@@Danielo515 it does, but works better in vscode imo. I'll keep testing though.

@jjysoserious Жыл бұрын

"i use dvorak" DUDE IS THE PERFECT CHADSTACK 😭😭😭

@MrTyty527 Жыл бұрын

kick docker out and get dvorak in!

@nicolasmazzon7231 Жыл бұрын

btw

@shanewalsch Жыл бұрын

He uses programmer dvorak i think

@astago2966 Жыл бұрын

but is he using dvorak in the video? I'm a beginner in dvorak, writing this took me a while xd

@shanewalsch Жыл бұрын

@@astago2966 most likely, but you can't be 100% sure cause he doesn't show his fingers. Also, as a dvorak typist, i dont recommend stopping typing in qwerty. Use both layouts, because if you use someone elses computer itd be a nightmare

@stavgafny Жыл бұрын

Guys I just figured out that pressing "I" lets you type things. I'm not lying it worked a minute ago.

@MrTyty527 Жыл бұрын

now try exit vim

@mixed_nuts Жыл бұрын

Real talk why? I remapped my navigation ijkl to be up/left/down/right, and h is insert. I get that i stands for insert but it's more natural to me my way

@jesse9999999 Жыл бұрын

@@mixed_nutsbasic nav on the home row is nice

@viktormarinho Жыл бұрын

@@mixed_nuts could you please send a snippet showing how you did it ? i would like to try this as well

@lritzdorf 16 күн бұрын

@@mixed_nuts The general idea is that JK, as your two strongest home-row keys (for the right hand) form a sort of action pair (in this case, up/down). Then, HL form another pair (left/right) around that. As a bonus, this avoids occupying your pinky, since it's comparatively weak. If an arrow-key arrangement makes more sense, go for it, but be prepared for confused glances from other vimmers :)

@jafarjuneidi7585 Жыл бұрын

This is actually the best vim video I've seen you make by far. Really loved it. Would like to see the i3+tmux combo as well

@jasonconsiglio5256 Жыл бұрын

I'm redefining my entire workflow based on i3, tmux, ubuntu, and neovim. A lot to learn, but I can see the power right away.

@yavko Жыл бұрын

@@jasonconsiglio5256 try hyprland (or sway) instead of i3

@ycaro002 Жыл бұрын

@@yavko why?

@702-yt Жыл бұрын

@@ycaro002 Wayland is superior to X in a lot of ways, but just try it and you'll see. You get a strangers guarantee on the internet so its bound to be worth it right?

@jafarjuneidi7585 Жыл бұрын

@@yavko I tried Xmonad once, and I was an i3 config junkie before that. But honestly I found the default i3 to be very great lately. I don’t bother much with configurations and just focus on productive work.

@jemag Жыл бұрын

Nice to see ThePrimeTime posting on his secondary channel every once in a while ;)

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

gotem

@AustinMarlar Жыл бұрын

Yes, I am also glad to see him finally giving his second channel some love.

@sunnyheheheh9401 Жыл бұрын

ThePrimeTime channel got some very good videos and they are so much better than those clickbait videos

@overdevio1003 Жыл бұрын

I also use Dvorak, a split keyboard, and neovim... Does that mean that I just need to learn rust? Am I just one step away from being a real CHAD?

@pesterenan 11 ай бұрын

This is the third time I'm watching this video and I'm just in awe at how much I can now understand after getting into neovim, THANK YOU so much for those tutorials, you're are GREAT PRIME! Never stop teaching!

@zaxiik 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I've been using Jetbrains for probably a decade already, and your videos convinced me to learn neovim. It's really not as hard as it seems, I'm on day 2 of using neovim exclusively and already good enough to not get lost. And holy shit, just exploring all the vim commands and figuring out how to combine them... when I experiment with something a little bit more complex, wondering "will this actually work?" and it ends up doing exactly what I wanted, that really gives such nice dopamine hit like no other software I've ever worked with.

@elocdev Жыл бұрын

You've switched me to a rose-pine color theme and helped me a lot in getting started with vim. I've never had more fun navigating using vim motions. It's so fricking cool. Thank you!

@jameshardin1786 Жыл бұрын

Please make that total walkthrough you mentioned in this video of how to be a productive beast of a programmer using the tools you do. I am 21, new to the real side of programming and web dev. Thank you for your videos they have been enlightening me to the world of programming like no other channel has.

@shawnmatyasovszky7994 Жыл бұрын

Would be curious to see your debugging workflow, if anyone else has interest in that sort of thing. It definitely seems like a pain point in the setup/usage of vim/neovim, and it's usually the thing I find myself reverting to an IDE for.

@pedrov8868 Жыл бұрын

Yep this

@_k3vwd Жыл бұрын

check these out - vimspector, nvim-dap

@IgorRoztr Жыл бұрын

Debugging is an anti-pattern :) Write better code

@yzeerkd Жыл бұрын

@Igor Roztropiński the debugger is an invaluable tool. Sure you can get by without it, I did for years, and you can definitely "write better code" to avoid using it excessively as a crutch, but the ability to drop right into the runtime, inspect the scope, run arbitrary code, etc, can be a massive time saver

@th.araujo Жыл бұрын

@@IgorRoztr you certainly have no experience dealing with other people code

@onlywilddrift9506 Жыл бұрын

I am really inspired by your videos and moved completely to vim and just love it. Thanks for all this amazing content.

@Thomas-gi9vy Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see different configurations and workflows, this was really inspiring and awesome to see the different tools being used

@mikeyim9985 Жыл бұрын

Yes the vim vid I needed! I was using your config and some of these stuff I would’ve never known or figured out how to do on my own. Thanks 🙏

@CUBKITS Жыл бұрын

There's some really great navigation stuff in this video. I would love to get this fast some day. I'm working my way into using Neovim as my daily driver, but so far I can only really use it effectively when editing single files. I use vim keybindings on VSCode, because I understand how the files and navigation and stuff works, and all that stuff, but I would love to learn more about how buffers, windows, tabs, etc. work in Neovim. As of now I just end up feeling so claustrophobic with multiple files or an integrated terminal as I often just lose track of them or forget the shortcuts to navigate around/manage windows/buffers.

@MartialBoniou 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the demo. Very inspiring! You made me switching from Vim to NeoVim, good sir. I'm also a dvorak typist so your keybindings were perfect (esp. Harpoon). I've also used Lazy as my plugin manager (works the same except "nvim " only loads Netrw and the colorscheme).

@something00witty Жыл бұрын

Appreciate this (almost as much as your chat with casey) - learning vim at the moment so videos like this are really helpful in understanding how the pieces fit together.

@patrickprucha5522 7 ай бұрын

Excellent video. You are a skilled programmer that is for sure. You blaze through things so fast. I realize that vim is the only tool for you because of your focus on doing something.

@luizcarlosazevedo9558 Жыл бұрын

amazing video!! would love a "how to use your terminal" with your transitions between command line, project in neovim and neovim config

@bugazavr 9 ай бұрын

Finally watched this, picked up so many things, great video!!

@j1d7s Жыл бұрын

That was fun. I have been using LazyVim for some weeks now and I am getting a similarly nice and flowing experience. I just need to add harpoon to the mix, sorry about that omission!

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

it hurts, but at least you recognize :)

@ericjmorey Жыл бұрын

@@IgorGuerrero you could also use file marks mM would mark a location in a file and 'M would take you to that location in that file. (You can use any capital letter to mark a location e.g. mA 'A would also work)

@j1d7s Жыл бұрын

@@IgorGuerrero Thanks, I used that already, it was a bit distracting because there are lots of jump targets in th e whichkey display, not just the ones I intentionally set.

@IgorGuerrero Жыл бұрын

@@j1d7s There's also `Telescope marks`

@paprykojad6315 Жыл бұрын

I literally configured nvim 3 hours ago and you post next tutorial, you're a saint man!

@carlweis Жыл бұрын

Yes…that’s the stuff. Please keep digging deeper into the vim workflow. Simply amazing. Let’s go!1

@rustdev1 Жыл бұрын

truly need more of this. Something like advanced usage of vim-fugitive

@theondono Жыл бұрын

I'm just commenting to please the algorithm because more people should be using vim

@mikeyim9985 Жыл бұрын

Also these vim videos have so much rewatch value. I mean, I’m probably gonna play this over and over and pausing tip by tip until I get it all committed in my memory

@saleenapatel Жыл бұрын

this was super super awesome man. I really want to know everything like everything about your workflow. Like hell yeah I want to see your combo 💯

@Asgrim_S Жыл бұрын

I literally watched neovim setup video yesterday. This is perfectly timed.

@len0xx963 Жыл бұрын

Just recently switched from VSC to Neovim, so it would be great to get more helpful videos like this one 👍🏼

@jonforhan9196 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I just learned the 'gd' thing with the lsp from this and it had made my life much better.

@3dprintjam Жыл бұрын

You make this look so simple!!

@distant6606 Жыл бұрын

thats what years of practice looks like baby

@taylorchavez6286 Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of watching a star craft 2 pro explain all the hot key mappings lol

@IK-xk7ex Жыл бұрын

Thanks world that these guys are exist and pushing us to use amazing tools like VIM. This video did my boring Monday

@anmolsharma4049 Жыл бұрын

Mygod so perfect timing. Just finished you 0 to lsp. You are a blessing

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

yayayayaya

@ravinrod Жыл бұрын

You just gave me some great ideas to improve my git workflow. Great video!

@krnrrr Жыл бұрын

top chadstack vid! i think it's not already that new for me (after all years of using vim), but very entertaining. simply the best!

@ariseyhun2085 Жыл бұрын

I recently switched to vim because of you, much appreciated boss 🙏 Turns out creating your own config really isn't that difficult

@zappist751 8 ай бұрын

Wait does it have syntax highlighting?

@VivekPayasi 3 ай бұрын

@@zappist751 yup it does!

@papricasix Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Finally! Please give us more of those!!

@aus10d Жыл бұрын

You are definitely a Grand Master of the Dark Arts. You show off vim in all its glory. I hope some day to be at least 5% as efficient as you.

@andresmartinez4697 Жыл бұрын

What a great video, the git part was amazing, keep the good work man!

@inomoz Жыл бұрын

Watched half of video with pause / double checking your workflow 😀. Thanks for sharing it.

@musdevfrog Жыл бұрын

Thank you for inspiring youths to use vim, linux, i3, tmux, Rust, ergonomics keyboard and dvorak.

@TayTayChan Жыл бұрын

This is great. Would love to see more about your i3, tmux and git worktree workflows

@Garentei 10 ай бұрын

He only uses i3 to assign each window a number which is kind of dumb since you can configure that directly in system settings in Mac or Linux lol

@leonasdev Жыл бұрын

The part of solving conflict is so neat. thanks!

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

fugitive is amazing

@mayboroda Жыл бұрын

This is the only channel that I have to listen on 0.75 speed. And (slap) we need more videos

@krtirtho Жыл бұрын

Any consideration for the underrated F.A.R.T (Flask, AWS, React, Tailwind) stack?

@seaweedglob Жыл бұрын

I'm more of a VAG (Vue, AWS, Go) stack kinda guy

@tuananhdo1870 Жыл бұрын

@@seaweedglob golang aws next tailwind

@tuananhdo1870 Жыл бұрын

@@seaweedglob trust me react i better than vue

@solidoak79 Жыл бұрын

Nice, Prime. I remember watching Ryan Florence vim his way around during a React talk and thinking I need to up my game. This vid is inspiring. Challenge accepted.

@luca-dallavalle Жыл бұрын

Best video on Neovim I've seen up until now... by far.

@kaczor647 Жыл бұрын

This video has so much energy!

@Mikenight120 Жыл бұрын

LETS GO THEPRIMEAGEN BACK WITH THE BEST CONTENT!! VIM!

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

yaya

@RobertMenke-fd9rc Жыл бұрын

Great video! I've yet to break away from jetbrains for merge conflict resolution, but that was a cool workflow.

@stevecanny1583 Жыл бұрын

Awesome job Prime! Any time I need to slow the video down to 50% and watch it five times to get all the juice out I know I'm onto something good!

@ji30019hq 8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the overview. If you’re still considering it, I’d also love to see a video on your tmux, etc config and workflow.

@AlecMaly Жыл бұрын

Now I know what Towlie felt like, I have no idea what's going on. Love it!

@liquidpebbles Жыл бұрын

May the algorithm bless and keep you

@KuzyoYaroslav Жыл бұрын

Love the video. Surely want to see tmux/i3/vim workflow.

@drunkleen 4 ай бұрын

Good one buddy love your personality in videos

@user-jx2hn2ov8g Жыл бұрын

Hey!! Would love to see a tutorial on how to best use vim for bioinformatics! So have R and python autocompletion perfectly set up, as well as quick pdf and Rmd viewer within vim! And to see plots directly when making them! (as opposed to using rstudio or vscode). Thank you for all your videos ThePrimeagen

@FilhoLouco Жыл бұрын

That's the video I was waiting for

@mariuszmiszuta3200 Жыл бұрын

thank you! Also you convinced me to try Fugitive!

@VictorPedro Жыл бұрын

I started using nvim after I watched your setup video,. Today I needed to resolve some git conflicts, and I wasn't sure how to do it using fugitive and had to open vscode (*spit*) for that. Anyway, the timing of this was perfect haha. Thank you for sharing the nvim wisdom.

@Paul-sv1lg Жыл бұрын

This is peak chad, love the vim videos

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

always will be

@Generic_text871 Жыл бұрын

God, it's the sequel we've been waiting for

@anotherdamnuser Жыл бұрын

Gotta say this is a very underrated channel.

@costindinoiu7440 Жыл бұрын

Honestly I enjoy prime's videos so much I just like them :)) he's good at both entertaining and coding.

@mikhailkalinin6484 Жыл бұрын

BLAZINGLY USEFUL INFO! THANKS YOU

@jackle3002 Жыл бұрын

Yes please, you;re doing some awesome stuffs man.

@nicpayne4130 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the merge conflict demo 🔥✨

@nikitajesaibegjans2458 Жыл бұрын

I don't use Vim or intend to, but cannot stop watching him using it - it is too satisfying

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

become the satisfaction yourself :)

@colineckert Жыл бұрын

awesome vim video! practical AF and exactly what I needed. what is the fugitive remap you made for git push?

@subbunittala2012 Жыл бұрын

you inspired me to switch me to NEOVIM sir ..bow down to you ..thanks for boosting my prodcutivity ..I'm loving it ,....using since 5 months !

@Iceman259 Жыл бұрын

Holy fuck I was scratching my head when you set the bindings for Harpoon in the neovim video and NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

yayayaya! DVORAK BABE

@arsenskavin130 Жыл бұрын

Entertainment and educational values are truly at pinnacle.

@heitorvrb Жыл бұрын

You should make a video on dvorak, why did you decide to make the switch, why did you choose dvorak over other """newer""" and """better""" layouts, how hard was the transition and how long did it take you to get back to full speed typing!

@NathanHedglin Жыл бұрын

He talks about on stream that in hindsight he'd remap the special characters instead of using Dvorak. It took me only a month to switch cold turkey to get back to my qwerty speed. A custom layout is probably ideal. Dvorak is a bit too right hand heavy imho

@ThrashAbaddon Жыл бұрын

I'm very interested in seeing how does debugging work in neovim. I'm using CLion & PyCharm and that those things are beasts. It takes me a few seconds to set a conditional breakpoint and pause the main thread called from a failing test. I can see the callstack, variables in each stack, maybe even play a bit in debug console to inspect in detail where is the problem is.

@derekreed6798 Жыл бұрын

OMG I used to us vi for everything 30yrs ago, I was doing some python using vim recently and it was taking me so long I went to vscode...but you have led me back to the light😃.

@NeverCodeAlone Жыл бұрын

I love your passin and start a own vim series here. I want to learn!!!

@petrpechkurov3095 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mr. ThePrimeagen!

@alexIVMKD Жыл бұрын

Been using neovim since your step by step guide. I appreciate it mr. PrimeTime. Yes I might or might not be intentionally mispronouncing your name. Edit: Learned a lot of stuff, good shit!

@almcchesney Жыл бұрын

Primeagen what keyboard are you rockin? My current ms sculpt keyboard is wearing out and in the market for a new one and eyeing a kinesis advantage 2 with the dual legend but the advantage 360 looks pretty awesome

@soundisfunction Жыл бұрын

amazing videos, just subbed ty ser

@mosukiton Жыл бұрын

Mate this video is so fucking good. I've used vim to edit config files in Linux but I've only developed at work and thats usual visual studio. You've just convinced me to configure nvim myself and switch over to it

@kesavan12 Жыл бұрын

Finally the vimminhlg video! let's go let's goooooo!

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

yayaya

@mpiorowski Жыл бұрын

omg, he's back with the VIM!

@ThePrimeagen Жыл бұрын

you know its going to happen

@ricardorien Жыл бұрын

Nice movements, btw, love harpoon.

@user-wk3qs3mb5t Жыл бұрын

the channel is alive! 🎉

@NicolasRuizX Жыл бұрын

The intro described me very accurately.

@ArielBenichou Жыл бұрын

Since I've gotten into: - NeoVim (Harpoon, Telescope, Lsp, etc...) - Tmux-Sessionizer - Rust You made my life better.

@vaisakhkm783 Жыл бұрын

Wait, Tmux-sessionizer ?

@parthokr Жыл бұрын

We will we will rock vim Thanks Freddie

@imaksimus Жыл бұрын

Oh my, I’m already pumped up for that Prime React video coming where Prime reacts to Prime neovimming in 2023.

@asdfasdfasdf1218 Жыл бұрын

I've recently started using markers (m to make marker, ' or ` to jump to marker) and they're rather convenient but something you wouldn't start using unless you consciously thought about it at first.

@ravidesai9556 11 ай бұрын

I come from Emacs-land, and really liked emacs' registers. Learning about vim markers allowed me to stay in the same navigation patterns that I'm used to, but with vim that uses less than half the RAM.