Tutor

Every page on this site is a Vim buffer, and this one teaches you to move around it. Do what a lesson says and a ✓ appears beside its heading. Your progress stays in this browser.

The lessons need a keyboard. On a phone, the : and / buttons in the statusline cover lessons 4 and 6.

## Lesson 1: Move down and up

Press j to move the cursor down one line, and k to move it back up. The cursor is the highlighted line. Its number in the left gutter is its real line number, and the other numbers count how far away each line is.

Press j a few times now, then k.

## Lesson 2: Go to the top and the bottom

Press G to go to the last line. Press g twice, gg, to come back to the first.

## Lesson 3: Jump between sections

The list near the top of this page shows each section as a Vim fold. Press zj to jump to the next section, and zk to jump back to the one before.

## Lesson 4: Search

Press /, type cursor, and press Enter. Every match lights up. Press n for the next match and N for the one before. Type :noh to clear the highlights.

A lowercase search ignores case. Put a capital letter in it and the case has to match.

## Lesson 5: Copy a line

Move the cursor onto the code below and press yy. The code is copied, ready to paste.

:set bg=dark

## Lesson 6: Run a command

Press : to open the command line at the bottom of the screen. Type set bg=dark and press Enter, or paste the line you copied in lesson 5. The page repaints in the dark theme, and :set bg=light brings the light one back.

:writing lists every post, :about and :home go to those pages, and :help lists the other commands.

## Lesson 7: Quit

Everyone asks how to quit Vim. Type :q! and press Enter to find out. A button there opens the site again.

## Summary

• j and k move down and up, and gg and G go to the top and the bottom.
• zj and zk jump between sections.
• / searches, and n and N step through the matches.
• yy copies the line under the cursor.
• : runs a command, and :help lists them.
• Enter opens the link on the cursor line. Try it on :Explore post/.