---
title: "Notes for second vim-fundamentals course meetup"
description: "newline another"
date: 2021-08-27
published: false
tags:
  - vim
template: blog-post
---


newline
another

Mahesh Subrajmanium Venkatachalam - Plugins | Installing a Theme
Hunter Phillips - Quickfix | Offline Ordering with getqflist
Andrea Wackerle - Search & Replace | Macros

Matthew Fletcher - Registers | Advanced Motions Jump, Delete, & Select | Advanced Motions: Paste & Move
Nicholas Payne - My First Vim Plugin | What Makes a Good Plugin
Zev Averbach - Harpoon | Wrap up

## Plugin-manager

- get a plugin manager
- unless you are going full lua, most people use vim-plug by the great junegunn

[https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug){.hoverlink}

## Install pluggged

```bash
curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
```

```vim
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': { -> fzf#install() } }
Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'

call plug#end()
```

## Install Plugins

```vim
:PlugInstall
:PlugClean
:PlugUpdate
```

## Installing a Theme

install using plug

```vim
Plug 'ayu-theme/ayu-vim'
```

set the theme

```vim
set termguicolors
let ayucolor="dark"
colorscheme ayu
```

## Quickfix

sending things to the quickfix list

```vim
:grep SOCKET_OPEN **/*.(c\|h)
```

quickfix commands

```vim
:copen
:cnext
:cdo s/vim/nvim/g
```

## Some remaps to consider

```vim
nnoremap <C-k> :cnext<CR>
nnoremap <C-j> :cprev<CR>
nnoremap <C-E> :copen<CR>
```

## Offline Ordering with getqflist

## Search & Replace

Walk through example.

```bash
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-fundamentals/master/course-website/lessons/exercise-3-search-and-replace.md > exercise.md && vim exercise.md
```

## Macros

- Macro Pressure

```bash
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-fundamentals/master/course-website/lessons/exercise-4-macros.md > exercise.md && vim exercise.md
```