My first computer job 18 years ago me access to my first Unix system. The people knew with Unix accounts and the CS classes I took all used Emacs as their prefered text editor. Due to that, I developed a strong preference for the emacs editor over vi. To this day I only know the very basic commands of vi/vim.
For the next two weeks I’m going to put serious effort in learning vi/vim. I’m going to alias emacs and gedit to launch vim, and try to do as much work in vim as I can.
Two questions I have:
- On my Ubuntu machine, should I install any other vim packages to get better functionality. As of now I only have vim-tiny installed. I would like to get syntax highlighting with vim if possible.
- Could someone point me to a good vi/vim cheat sheet or guide with the commands I need to learn
I will report back in two weeks and let people know how it goes.
