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This is a relatively short screencast on a few different ways to select text in Vim. Vim's visual mode is a very powerful feature of the editor which allows you to select data in different, yet meaningful, ways.

As a developer, its as important to know your editor as well as a carpenter knows his hammer. I've also uploaded the video to my blog, for those interested in a less compressed version. Enjoy!

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26. xpilz Sat, 29 May 2010 03:30

Thanks. Now your voice was more clean than the vid before. Better :D


25. Marco Mon, 17 May 2010 13:42

I´d knew that vim was awesome but I not wondered that it could do it \o/


24. Wolf Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:57

nice work :) i like it


23. Lisa Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:26

Very fast, but very helpful. I watched some of your videos multiple times in order to recall all the cool tricks. A search video might be helpful, too. Thanks!


22. slestak Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:33

Very nice. I have used vi/vim for years and still pick up new commands.


21. Seb Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:38

Hi, nice tutorial, well presented and organised - thanks!


20. carlos Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:59

Thanks that was very usefull


19. anonymous Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:58

Thank you for your videos!


18. anonymous Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:26

I loved the tips in this video!

I am using VIM for several years now, but some of the things you showed I didn't know.

Thanks.


17. anonymous Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:23

I loved the tips in this video!

I am using VIM for several years now, but some of the things you showed I didn't know.

Thanks.


16. anonymous Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:35

Thanks! Super useful!


15. anonymous Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:36

Man, this is awesome... Especially the v(a|i) stuff. Also, that shift i with the ctl+v is great! Thank you for this :)


14. anonymous Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:59

I'm a long time Vim user and I learned some cool new things from this video.

I like the little gray box the shows the keys your press (what is it BTW?).

Excellent work, thanks!

Miki


13. Paul Beckingham Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:27

Nice tutorial. Thank you.


12. anonymous Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:49

Good pointers. Thanks


11. anonymous Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:43

The app for broadcasting my keystrokes is called KeyCastr. Its a mac only app, but I'm sure there are *nix alternatives.


10. Tim Bower Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:19

Excellent! I teach some introductory Unix classes and student's have said at times that they would like see exactly what it is that I'm typing when editing a file. How did you get you do that window that showed your commands? That made it really nice to follow what you were doing.

Thanks.


9. anonymous Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:32

Hi, Thank you for the screencast

Try also :

v[line number]gg

v10gg visual select till line: 10

i found it very usefull.


8. Justin Lilly Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:47

To the guy who said visual quality could be improved, you can find a higher resolution version at my blog, http://justinlilly.com


7. anonymous Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:37

Liked the va< -- didn't know about that.

I wish va" worked for selecting strings, or va'.

If you type 'o' in visual mode, it flips the anchor, so you can change both sides of the selection.


6. anonymous Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:27

Thanks! Learning by looking over the shoulder is really a great addition to the help files.


5. mrunion Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:21

More please!


4. Kyran Dale Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:43

Loved it! And learned a couple of things to boot. A great demonstration of the power of vim and modal editing. These need to be publicized - a really great way to help newbies overcome vim's initial strangeness. My request is keep 'em coming. VIM is one of the powerhouses of open-source and deserves more screencasts.


3. Kyran Dale Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:28

The ShowMeDo Robot says - this video is now published, thanks for adding to ShowMeDo.


2. anonymous Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:58

excellent tips and clearly explained. Explaining the shortcuts as you type them v[isual] i[nner] s[entence] is brilliant, makes them much easier to remember. Thanks


Justin Lilly Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:47

Your video has been edited. This is an automatic post by ShowMeDo.


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good intro
bootux 37 days ago
Vim: Installing plugins

I love emacs but I realize that I need to learn vim.

Videos like this. takes away the boring parts

and turn the learning process into something fun

thanks!!!

I value your work!!!
Andres Kwan 48 days ago
An Introduction to Vim Macros

Very helpful video. It would be better if it was a higher quality video.
Paul Lindberg 2 months ago
Vim Selections

Thanks. Now your voice was more clean than the vid before. Better :D
xpilz 3 months ago
An Introduction to Vim Macros

Really helpful. I needed an example like this of using makros.
xpilz 3 months ago
Vim % operator

I am enjoying the VIM tutorials. Thank you very much, sir!
Pete Smith 3 months ago
Vim Intro

Really helpful introduction, found new tip of using. Thanks!
MIke 3 months ago
Vim Selections

I´d knew that vim was awesome but I not wondered that it could do it \o/
Marco 3 months ago
Vim: Installing plugins

I installed my NERD_tree plugin exactly as prescribed but I get "Ambiguous use of user-defined command" when I try to run it.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks and regards,

Frank
Franklin Russell 3 months ago
An Introduction to Vim Macros

Good work and please thanks for helping us to learn.

Keep it up.
fred 3 months ago
Vim Intro

Awesome tips; thanks!
Buffalo Billion 4 months ago
Vim: Installing plugins

Thanks Justin.. was really useful
cp 4 months ago
Vim Selections

nice work :) i like it
Wolf 5 months ago
Vim Selections

Very fast, but very helpful. I watched some of your videos multiple times in order to recall all the cool tricks. A search video might be helpful, too. Thanks!
Lisa 6 months ago
Vim Selections

Hi, nice tutorial, well presented and organised - thanks!
Seb 7 months ago
Vim Selections

Thanks that was very usefull
carlos 7 months ago
Vim: Installing plugins

Thanks! I was actually trying to figure out how to install the snippetsemu plugin. However, I don't think you explained how to install vimball, which you have to do before you can install .vba plugins.
Alex Robbins 7 months ago
Vim: Installing plugins

Great video tutorial. Thank you
anonymous 9 months ago
Vim Selections

Thank you for your videos!
anonymous 9 months ago
Vim: Installing plugins

Video was definitely useful. I didn't know that this .vim folder should be created, so I spent a lot of time to search for its equivalent since I was not finding this exact location. Thanks a lot :)
anonymous 9 months ago
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