Vim Masterclass (Udemy.com)

I’ve been a developer for 20 years now, and I have to admit that until recently, I only knew basic commands for editing text with vi(m). I wasn’t even aware of how powerful this editor is. I decided to take this course because, lately, I’ve had to edit or check files and configurations on Linux machines without a graphical interface. It frustrated me to realize that I should have known this better and been able to work more efficiently. But this course opened my eyes, and now I use (Mac)Vim as my default text editor in my daily workflow. As for the course itself, it’s very well-structured, clearly explained, and full of great examples. It truly teaches you to “think the Vim way.” I really enjoyed it and will recommend this course to everyone I know.

I really love that Jason managed to make the course concise, yet provides detailed information. Some criticisms point out lack of certain commands, however the explanation of core concept is far more valuable, as one can allways google missing pices of information. Also, personally I appreciate Jason's elocution, he narrates in fluent manner and with clean accent (clearly as a native speaker of English) which is oh so important in online tutorials. Overall, after finnishig about 80% of the course I went on to configure Neovim and use it as my coding editor at work. Best investment on Udemy so far!

This course is of exceptional quality. There is very good lesson planning, carefully thought out examples that double as exercises for practice offline. Each lesson is so packed with patterns and key concepts that I find myself revisiting them to cement the information and to understand better the patterns used by vim. Learning the patterns lowers the cognitive load of having to memorize each possible combination of commands (virtually impossible). Thanks for the great care in the preparation of this course. I highly recommend it for any software engineer, developer, and writer out there.

Two years were needed, including two restarts, now I'm "done" with the course and vim. It's not Jason's fault, I just wasn't ready to store this amount of keystrokes in my head. After starting to "think in vim" everything was much easier and a lot of later findings made me smile a lot ("wow, that's so easy now and makes so much sense"). I can imagine Jason as a very good teacher in real life, too. He sounds very convinced about what he's teaching, but never gets into a hurry or wants to close a chapter down. I already took some other courses of Jason, the next one is his Python course, just as a short refresher. Thank you, Jason!

Terrific class on VIM! Very thorough and goes through all the useful tips and tricks one might want to know to quickly get up to speed. I would recommend going through the lecture videos 3-4 times in order to really know all the material. VIM has a steep learning curve and unless you have a photographic memory you will be asking yourself "what was the key to do this again?" If you follow along on your terminal as he explains the videos and also do the assignments, you will really start to internalize about 1/4 of the keys by the end of the course. He also provides a really useful VIM cheat sheet that shows all the keys to print out and have next to you. That being said, the steep learning curve is worth it. VIM IS POWERFUL! It blows any other editor I have seen or used out of the water.

well, i was using vim, and just the basics but taking this course opened me up to the world of vim, a powerful tool for text editing and i got what i expected from the course, although vim has an in-built documentation, learning from an organised tutorial is much effective and i could see immediate changes in increase of my efficiency while using vim while credit goes to creator of vim , it also goes to jason for compiling and putting together this lesson thanks! would myself go back and check out his other courses, and recommend this course to others

This is a great VIM course as the trainer's method of teaching is very structured. For each topic, trainer will first demo and go through those commands, after the demo it is trainee turn to do the practice, after the practice, trainer will go through the practice in the video demo mode. This way, it is sort of re-confirming on our understanding of the particular topic. Would recommend this course to those that are interesting in improving their VIM skill.

The course was great! I have learnt so much but I'm sure that I will be returning to this resource to refresh my memory on certain things. The only thing I will say is that the course slowed down considerably in the later stages. The sections on buffers, windows and preferences were a bit frustrating at times. I felt that the could have been a bit briefer whereas despite Jason's concern I felt the Text Objects section could have done with maybe a couple of extra minutes. Overall A great course.

Excellent and comprehensive VIM instruction. The only thing it doesn’t cover in great detail is installing packages to VIM to make it more like an IDE for developing in a particular language like Python. i had no experience with vim before this video and now I feel very confident after just a few days. will take time to memorize all the key combinations but this course provides an awesome kickstart to my learning. i would highly recommend this course for new or even experienced VIM users. I am sure anyone will pick up a thing or two (or 100) given the depth of VIM. Thanks!!

I needed an in-depth tutorial on Vim as I want to use it as a general text editor and Python IDE. This course offers a detailed look at how Vim operates. Mr. Cannon has put together a fine tutorial to get a person up and running with this rather elegant and customizable software. I now feel confident that the basics are understood and can pursue a more advanced implementation of this readily available application. I have enrolled in numerous courses by Jason and have not been disappointed (next up is his Python course). Highly recommend this tutorial!