Screencast: An introduction to Vim

Sep 26, 2013 • Dana Miller

My third take, based on Amanda Charbonneau’s helpful concept map from Round 6.1.

I wanted to experience of converting relatively simple text to video, but basic Vim is not the most visually stimulating topic, and I ended up creating my own set of written bullet points first since presenting audio and visual simultaneously is quite different (this was relatively quick, and I could have taught from these in person). I first used vim when someone sat next to my laptop and said “Hey, did you know you can…”, which is hard to match for engagement. However, the video did have the advantage of making visual changes like moving between the editor and the command line, or a warning popping up a the bottom of the screen much easier to follow than on a printed page.