Basic Vim Commands

A Beginner’s Guide to Editing Text Like a Pro

Vim is a powerful and ubiquitous text editor that comes pre-installed on many Unix-based systems. It is also the default editor for git, which means that you may encounter it when you’re committing changes or doing an interactive rebase.

However, Vim’s user interface and user experience can be somewhat counter-intuitive, which makes it difficult to interact with and even exit. That’s why we previously published an article on “How to Exit Vim”. In this piece, we will cover some of the basic…