Vim

To learn

• buffers management
• macros recording

Cheat Sheet

• Count occurrences: :%s/some_pattern//n
• Toggling spell checking: :set spell "nospell.
• Sometimes, when I activate spell checking, I need to change the language, since my init.vim file has set spelllang=it by default: :set spell spelllang=en.
• Navigate changes (by using g; and g,): :changes.
• Use :retab to convert the buffer to your setup for indentation. For instance, if you configured vim to have 4 spaces for indentation, it will convert the tabs to 4 spaces.
• Time travel

:earlier 3 "undo the last three changes
:earlier 5m "Go back to the state of the file 5 minutes ago
:later 1h "Travel forward through the change history 1 hour

Cheat Sheets

• Vim Cheat Sheet
• DevHints cheatsheet

Resources

• vim-galore, a repository collecting all sorts of resources about Vim
• Vim casts, the best video tutorials you can find
• Vim help, a website made of Vim man pages
• Vim cookbook
• Vim FAQ
• Practical Vim a book - the best book you can find - on Vim, by the same creator of Vim Casts: Drew Neil.
• Vim subreddit
• Vim intermediate guide
• Vim as an IDE, a workshop by Jake Zimmerman
• Obsidian is awesome, nevertheless it is not the best performance-wise. Even if it becomes way harder and complicated to manage, it is worth keeping note of personal notetaking in Vim