Efficient Editing With vim

Even as long as I’ve been using vi/vim, there are still handy commands I always forget. Jonathan McPherson has an excellent article, “Efficient Editing With vim”, that does a clear job of explaining what the title says. You should be at least passing familiar with the basic vim modal editing concept.

In general, you want to spend as little of your time in vim’s insert mode as possible, because in that mode it acts like a dumb editor. This is why most vim novices spend so much time in insert mode — it makes vim easy to use. But vim’s real power lies in command mode! You’ll find that the better you know vim, the less time you will spend in insert mode.

Found via Plain Text Computing.