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Hello folks.

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We have learned vi editor and now it's time to

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look at the difference between vi and vim editor.

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As far as the functionality is concerned,

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both editors work in the same manner.

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Which editor you choose is a

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matter of your personal choice.

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Some people recommend learning the vim

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editor instead of the vi editor.

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Now of course, due to its added feature, the learning and

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using vim editor is much easier than the vi editor.

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Now, if it is easier then why we were using vi

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in the first place. The reason we were using vi in

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the first place is because vi was the first one that

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was introduced when the Linux or Unix was born.

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Now, a lot of times you're going to find, supporting

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an operating system, maybe like an older version of operating

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system, maybe Solaris or AIS or HPUX, older Unix type

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of operating system, they're probably not going to have vim

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then you have to use vi.

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Now the difference, do I have to learn

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vim as completely new command or new tool?

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Absolutely not.

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If you have learned vi, then you have

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learned vim as well, but you probably not

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have learned it's enhanced feature.

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That is why it says that if you have learned vim first,

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which has a lot of new features, and then you go to

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vi, that means you don't have to go back to vi.

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All right, next one is since vim is based on

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the vi, so when you learn how to use vim

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editor, you will automatically learn how to use vi editor.

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It's just that simple.

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As I explained it earlier, vim has all

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the features as vi with some excellent addition.

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And there's also a comprehensive help system and a

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lot of customization options available in the vim editor.

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Now, let's look at the difference

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between vi and vim editor,

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the main difference.

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Now I got this picture which

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is very informative picture from online.

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So let's look at a few things

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that vi has to offer today.

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It is installed on a lot of places, it has

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a shorter name, and it is simpler to use.

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And the combined feature for vi

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and vim, let's look at them.

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Both are small, both are ubiquitous, meaning that

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both are available pretty much on a lot

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of operating system, intuitive command language.

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It has a learning curve and a powerful once you learn it.

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So one way or the other, whether you learn vi or

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vim, you will have the power once you learn it.

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Now, if you wanted to learn of vim, you're

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going to find a lot of new features that

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are listed on the right hand side.

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And one of them is the completion, which is that

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you can autocomplete your command or your word or

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as if you were typing in bash, you hit tab,

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it autocompletes, pretty much the same way.

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Then you have spell check. Beautiful.

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So if you are typing a word and

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you want to put in spell check,

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it is available now, in vi

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it was not available. But it's good,

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the spell check is there but I do not find

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[Author mumbling]

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like a strong reason to do a spell check.

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The reason because we do a

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lot of configuration file changes.

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So in configuration file a lot

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of words don't even make sense.

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But anyway, it's good to have a spell check

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whenever we are editing, comparison, merging, unicode, vimdiff,

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regular expression, scripting language, supports many different ones

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plugins, it has a GUI, folding, and a syntax

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highlighting, a lot of these new features.

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Now if I go into each one of them it's

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going to take me a lot longer but I want

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you to go ahead and explore it yourself.

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But what I could do here is I could

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give you some of the information that will help

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you to understand and learn vim editor, and all

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its new features that it has to offer.

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Let me give you the vim interactive learning tool.

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But of course you could go online and

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you could find a lot of tools.

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You type vim editor tutorials, you're going to find

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tons of resources, even people have written books on

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vim, and you're going to find even a single

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entire course, maybe 10-20 hours just on vim.

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So the more you want it to learn,

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the more you want to dig in,

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it's pretty much the same.

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As I said, I would always recommend that you

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use a basic way of using vim or vi.

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So let's get into those tools.

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There are many websites that offer free vim interactive

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training, and these websites are of course they

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are free and people have done an amazing

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job when they actually have built those interactive

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tools for people to actually learn that.

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Now one of my favorite is the www.openvim.com.

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This website has an interactive tool which helps you learn vim

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or vi editor a lot faster, and I would definitely recommend you

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to please go ahead and try it out and you're going

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to find it a lot easier than actually going through a

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document or going through a tutorial or a video.

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Next one is a vimgenius.com, which also is a

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good interactive tool that you can learn from.

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And the last one is vim-adventures.com, which actually

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teaches you the vim editor through the game.

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So if you're into games, you could play games as

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well as you could learn vim editor as well.

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So let me go into the openvim first,

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so I could show you how it works.

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So go to the browser and right

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here I have openvim already entered.

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I'm just going to refresh it, and

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it's going to start the introduction.

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And you see on top this is the interactive

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screen for you and the bottom is the keyboard.

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It's going to prompt you to enter the highlighted keys and

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it's going to ask you to type it on the screen.

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So let me read it the first time you're going to log in.

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It's going to say, Hello. I am an interactive Vim tutorial.

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I'll teach you what Vim is about without hassle.

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Perfect. Nobody wants Hassle.

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If you are in a hurry, press any key to fast forward.

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What it means is if you want to go

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directly into these different lectures or interactive sessions, then

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you could just hit the spacebar, sorry any key to fast forward.

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But I would not recommend it, you go through it.

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Just spend some time and believe me, it's not

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going to take you longer to go through the

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first introduction section. To practice what you've learned,

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try out practice page.

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It has context sensitive reference for commands.

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Now, let me introduce you to the basic of Vim.

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Now see it's highlighting or blinking the enter key.

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So what it's asking you to do is hit enter.

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Once you hit enter, it says, Vim has two basic mode.

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One is insert mode, in which you write text

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as if in normal text editor, excuse me.

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And, Another is normal mode which provides you

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efficient way to navigate and manipulate text.

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So we already know that you type i to get

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into the interactive mode or where you type it in

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and you hit Escape to get out of that.

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So now the fifth line says, Let's try

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it out! First, change to insert mode.

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So it's asking me to hit i.

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Go ahead on i on your keyboard. Good,

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now your're in insert mode.

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Write something and change back to normal mode.

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Okay, hello.

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And I wrote that and then I'm going to hit Escape.

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Good. Let's move on to another section. Beautiful.

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Let's hit enter.

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In contrast to regular text editor, you use keys H, J, K,

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and L, instead of arrow keys to move cursor.

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As I explained that earlier as well, try not

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to use the left, up, down, and right keys.

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I would suggest and definitely strongly recommend that you

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use H, J, K, L keys to navigate left to right.

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So basically here it's actually teaching you

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how you could use these interactive keys.

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Again, as you could see, we are

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already on the third interactive session.

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All you have to do is go to up to 19.

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The last one is the 20th and try that out.

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It's not going to take you longer and you're

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going to find it so easy to learn a

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vim editor right here on this interactive tool.

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The second one I explained to you is the vimgenius.

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So if you go to vimgenius.com, and it's going

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to say become a Vim Genius, click Start

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Now, I'm a beginner.

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I'm experienced.

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If you are a beginner, pick the first one or

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the second one if you have some experience already.

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Now, before you start, this is what it's telling

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you about the main keys in the vi vim editors.

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So go ahead and Start Level 1.

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And now it says Move cursor to left, look at this

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top. Left is the H key.

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So when I do H, it says h is correct!

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Press Enter or click Next to continue.

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Insert at beginning of line.

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i or is it i or o,

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so I think. Append the cursor so,

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so it's giving me the next line.

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Anyway, I was thinking i, hit enter,

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so Append at cursor is usually a.

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So hit a, and it says a is correct!

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Press Enter or click Next. Append at end of line.

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So it's going to keep asking you these questions and you're

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going to have to press the keys on your keyboard.

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And the third one, as I said, I've never used it.

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It's actually, Learning VIM while playing a game.

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So you could actually say press any key.

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So I'm going to hit enter and it's going to say

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h, k, l, j as my navigating keys up, left, right, and bottom.

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And you could go left, right, bottom.

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This is your cursor and you could

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learn as you go through it.

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So I never use it.

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Try it out and if you like it, let

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me know and provide your feedback on that.

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Anyway, this is all about

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the vim interactive learning tool.

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I hope you find this lecture valuable and you could

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use these open free tools online to learn vim.

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If you have any questions, I'm always here, ask me.

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Send me a message.

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Send me a message on Udemy, or send me an email.

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Thank you and good luck.

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