Vim Exercises

To create, view, and edit files from the terminal.

1. Normal
2. Insert
3. Command Line (subset of Normal)

To navigate a file, perform commands on the file, search a file.

To modify the contents of a file directly with the keyboard.

Many ways:

1. directional pad arrow keys for moving left, down, up and right
2. hjkl keys for moving left, down, up, and right
3. $ to move to the end of a line
4. 0 to move to the beginning of a line
5. gg to move to the top of a file
6. G to move to the end of a file
7. :[line-number] to move to an exact line number
8. w to navigate to the next word
9. b to navigate to the previous word

Limited navigation. You must use the directional pad arrow keys for moving left, down, up and right.

Many ways. This course showed the i key which switches to Insert mode at the current cursor location.

The a key switches to Insert mode right after the current cursor location.

By pressing the escape esc key.