Insert Mode Video now Online

October 18th, 2009 by Derek Wyatt

I’ve managed to throw together a video on Insert Mode today. I’m not supremely happy with this one… it was a bit rushed as I only had a short amount of time between the moments when my daughter pulls on my pant-leg asking me to do “something”.

I may redo this one, not sure yet – it’ll just depend on how much time I’ve got.

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  1. Greg:

    October 19th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    Hi Derek,
    I just wanted to stop by and say ‘thanks’ for your great videos/lessons/insights on vim. I’m using vim now for about a year but I never really got past the simple (nevertheless useful) standard commands. Your videos do an incredible job for getting past that barrier and exploring the endless possibilities of vim ;)

    I’m looking forward to your next videos (preferably of the intermediate/advanced section)

    Keep up the fantastic work!

  2. Derek Wyatt:

    October 19th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    Thanks Greg. I’m definitely trying to get to the more intermediate/advanced topics now. The basics had to be covered first after I realized that my audience was much more receptive to that stuff but now we should be ready to move on to some more fun topics :)

  3. vim_user:

    October 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Hello Derek,
    I would like to say thank you for the vim videos. You make them:
    1) Fun
    2) Entertaining
    3) Informative
    4) All all around great experience.

    Please keep up the good work. You hard hard is GREATLY APPRECIATED.

    Best regards,
    Vim_Uer

  4. Amy:

    April 23rd, 2010 at 2:07 am

    Hi Derek,
    I just wanted to stop by and say ‘thanks’ for your great videos/lessons/insights on vim. I’m using vim now for about a year but I never really got past the simple (nevertheless useful) standard commands. Your videos do an incredible job for getting past that barrier and exploring the endless possibilities of vim ;)

    I’m looking forward to your next videos (preferably of the intermediate/advanced section)

    Keep up the fantastic work!

  5. Wesley Steinbrink:

    August 28th, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    I totally enjoy your videos just seeing the small part of them I have already. I am probably jumping the gun in asking this, but have you found a good way around the Esc thing going from Insert to Normal? I seem to find that Alt-l (Alt with lower case L) seems to work well for older versions of vim (and for gvim) and also for the bash line (when one does set -o vi). Therefore when I find a vim or vi that won’t, I probably will do an imap to make it so. What do you think?

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