Based on A Day with Vim Tutor (vimtutor) by Minh-Phuc Tran

vimtutor is a very basic, clean, and cool application that teaches you how to use Vim. It’s the best place to get started using vim. Spending about 1 hour with vimtutor, you can pretty much get all major features of vim.

However, 1 hour is somewhat too much for guys who aren’t that interested in vim. Therefore, I wrote this 3-min-read article summarizing what and how vimtutor can teach you, then you can decide to jump into it later.

What vimtutor teaches

vimtutor includes 7 lessons:

• Lesson 1: Open vim, Move the cursor around, Insert and Delete text, Save and exit vim.
• Lesson 2: Fast moving cursor (move by words, motions, etc), Fast delete (delete by words, lines, motions, etc), Undo and Redo.
• Lesson 3: Paste text, Replace text, Change words or lines (delete and insert).
• Lesson 4: Move between lines, Find and Replace.
• Lesson 5: Run shell commands, Read and Write to different files.
• Lesson 6: Open and append text, Copy text, Set vim preferences.
• Lesson 7: Use the vim command.

How vimtotor teaches

vimtutor applies an interactive teaching method. When you open vimtutor, what it does is just open a text file in vim, and that text file shows instructions and examples so that you can directly work the exercises on it.