Vim 101: Coding at the speed of thought

As developers, we often spend a lot of time on our IDEs writing and editing code. Albeit famous for its hard-to-quit keybindings, vim is an open source code editor with a lot of powerful features. In this talk, we will focus on the basics of how to use vim keybinds. Vim keybinds are available in multiple IDEs and code editors allowing one to use vim mode in their favorite text editor.

We will also look at neovim, an open source fork of vim and its capabilities like using Language Server Protocol features, a brief overview of configuring neovim with lua, and how to use neovim like an IDE.

• Basics of vim motions.

• How to open and quit vim.

• Using vim keybinds in different IDEs

• A brief overview of other functionalities of the neovim