Vim

vim is a modal editor (improving on vi). It can run without graphics, is ubiquitous, powerful, and efficient but is an acquired skill.

• MIT's “missing semester” has an excellent lecture video and notes.
• vimtutor is a program included with vim that will guide you through usage – run it from the command line.
• vim-wiki

vim commands

vim [file name] opens a file in vim. If that file doesn't exist or you opened it in the wrong filepath, you will see an empty blank vim that says [NEW] at the bottom

[i] puts you in insert mode so you can freely type and move your cursor around

esc gets you out of insert mode

:q quits vim

:wq saves what you wrote and quits vim

:q! does not save what you wrote and quits vim