CS21 Lab 0: UNIX and the text editor
Due Saturday night before midnight (Jan 24)
4. Learn the text editor...vim
Learn the text editor we will use to write programs by running the vim tutorial.
- open up a terminal and run the vimtutor command
You don't have to learn every single command. Just make sure you know the basics -- how to: open a file, add text to the file, delete text from the file, save the file, and quit the editor. Don't spend more than about 20-30 minutes on the tutorial.
Complete just the following sections of vimtutor:
- all of Lesson 1 (moving around, x, i, A, :wq)
- NOTE: to move around faster, try Ctrl-f and Ctrl-b (forward and backward)
- Lesson 2.6 (dd)
- Lesson 2.7 (undo)
- Lesson 3.1 (p) and 3.2 (r)
- Lesson 4.1 (G) and 4.2 (searching)
- Lesson 6.2 (a), 6.3 (R), and 6.4 (y and p)
I have created a short VIM Summary to help you remember the most frequently used commands. You may want to print this and bring it with you to class the first couple of weeks.