25 essential Vim commands for navigation and editing

Overview Vim is an extremely powerful text editor and can be especially useful when editing larger files. It can speed up/ease up the process. We’ll be looking at some essential Vim commands for navigation and editing text.This article focuses on every day Vim usage, meaning - to help out or increase productivity for a individual or to jump start their journey working in Vim(vim navigation and editing). Vim has multiple working modes and in this post we’ll cover - Normal, Command, Visual and Insert mode, which are modes for every day usage....

December 23, 2023 · 5 min · 1063 words · MarkoN

How to jump to the end of file in VIM

Overview This article will act as a simple guide to demonstrate how to jump to the end of file in VIM. Vim is a powerful text editor but it requires time and a learning curve to master it. Vim is made in a way that all commands, functions and editing is done via keyboard. Because of that, Vim has a lot of keyboard shortcuts to execute all those commands and functions....

May 10, 2022 · 4 min · 658 words · MarkoN