Vim & Tmux Quest

Tracks

1. 01🚪Surviving Vim — The First Hour

   0/8 lessons

   Quit, save, move, edit. Stop being trapped.

   <p>The running joke is that nobody can exit Vim. By the end of this track you'll have moved past the joke into actual fluency: opening files, choosing modes deliberately, navigating without arrow keys, and making your first real edits. Track 2 will teach you the grammar; this track makes sure you don't drown before you get there.</p>

   Lesson list (8)

   • 01
     Why Vim Still Matters~12 min · vim, philosophy, remote-development
   • 02
     Vim vs Neovim~10 min · vim, neovim, tooling
   • 03
     Opening, Saving, and Quitting~10 min · vim, basics, files
   • 04
     The Modal Concept~14 min · vim, modes, mental-model
   • 05
     Insert Mode — Entering Text~10 min · vim, insert-mode, basics
   • 06
     Basic Movement~14 min · vim, motion, navigation
   • 07
     Basic Editing Commands~12 min · vim, editing, yank-paste
   • 08
     The Dot Command — Vim's Hidden Superpower~11 min · vim, productivity, dot-formula

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2. 02📖Vim Motion Language

   0/6 lessons

   Operator + motion + text object — the grammar that compounds

   <p>Track 1 gave you the survival kit. This track gives you the language. Once you internalize operators, motions, and text objects, you stop memorizing Vim commands — you compose them on the fly. Five operators times ten motions times ten text objects is five hundred edit verbs you didn't have to memorize individually.</p>

   Lesson list (6)

   • 01
     The Grammar — Operator + Motion~13 min · vim, grammar, composability
   • 02
     Text Objects — Operating on Structure~14 min · vim, text-objects, structure
   • 03
     Visual Mode — Select Then Operate~11 min · vim, visual-mode, selection
   • 04
     Searching and Replacing~13 min · vim, search, substitute, regex
   • 05
     Marks, Macros, and Registers~15 min · vim, marks, macros, registers
   • 06
     The Count Prefix — Multiplying Commands~8 min · vim, counts, productivity

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3. 03✏️Practical Vim Editing

   0/4 lessons

   Buffers, splits, search-driven workflows, and the global command

   <p>Tracks 1 and 2 made you fluent inside one buffer. This track scales you up to real projects: many files open at once, multiple panes side by side, the built-in file explorer, and the ridiculously powerful global command that applies edits across every line that matches a pattern. Bring all this together and Vim feels like an IDE before you've installed a single plugin.</p>

   Lesson list (4)

   • 01
     Buffers, Splits, and Tabs~14 min · vim, buffers, splits, tabs
   • 02
     File Explorer and Built-in Completion~11 min · vim, netrw, completion
   • 03
     Spell Check and Code Folding~10 min · vim, spell, folding
   • 04
     Shell Commands and the Global Command~14 min · vim, shell, global, advanced-substitute

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4. 04⚙️Vim Configuration

   0/4 lessons

   Make the editor fit your hands — settings, mappings, plugins, LSP

   <p>You've been editing in vanilla Vim. That was on purpose — to feel where the edges actually are before papering over them with plugins. This track is the graduation: a config you understand line by line, key mappings that fit your hands, lazy.nvim for plugin management, and Neovim 0.11+'s native LSP for real code intelligence.</p>

   Lesson list (4)

   • 01
     Essential Settings — Vimscript and Lua~14 min · vim, config, vimscript, lua
   • 02
     Key Mappings — Make the Keyboard Yours~13 min · vim, keymaps, leader
   • 03
     Plugin Management with lazy.nvim~14 min · neovim, lazy, plugins
   • 04
     Native LSP in Neovim 0.11+~16 min · neovim, lsp, code-intelligence

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5. 05🖥️Tmux Fundamentals

   0/3 lessons

   Persistent terminal sessions that survive everything

   <p>Half of being good in the terminal is never losing your context. tmux is the tool that takes a single SSH connection — or a single local terminal — and turns it into a persistent multi-window, multi-pane workspace that you can detach from, close your laptop on, and pick up exactly where you left off. This track gets you from "never used tmux" to "already running my dev environment in a tmux session."</p>

   Lesson list (3)

   • 01
     What Is Tmux and Why Use It~11 min · tmux, philosophy, terminal
   • 02
     Sessions, Windows, and Panes — The Key Map~16 min · tmux, sessions, windows, panes
   • 03
     Detach, Reattach, and Copy Mode~13 min · tmux, detach, copy-mode, scrollback

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6. 06🔧Tmux Configuration & Workflow

   0/3 lessons

   Make tmux fit your hands — better keys, status bar, plugins, scripted layouts

   <p>The default tmux is functional but unfriendly. The keys are awkward, the status bar is ugly, and there's no clipboard integration out of the box. This track is the tmux-config equivalent of Track 4: a small, understandable <code>~/.tmux.conf</code> that makes the daily experience much better, plus the plugin layer (TPM + tmux-resurrect) that turns tmux from "persistent until reboot" into "persistent forever."</p>

   Lesson list (3)

   • 01
     Essential .tmux.conf Settings~14 min · tmux, config, keybindings
   • 02
     Status Bar and Plugin Manager (TPM)~14 min · tmux, status-bar, tpm, plugins
   • 03
     Session Management and Scripted Layouts~12 min · tmux, scripts, tmuxinator, automation

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7. 07⚡The Power Duo — Vim + Tmux

   0/3 lessons

   Make Vim splits and tmux panes feel like one workspace

   <p>Vim and tmux were designed independently, decades apart. Their default integration is rough — different keys, different navigation, different clipboards. This track files down the seams: a single key sequence to move across both layers, a project layout that scales to real work, and the honest tradeoffs between Vim+tmux and a full IDE so you know when each is the right call.</p>

   Lesson list (3)

   • 01
     Seamless Navigation with vim-tmux-navigator~12 min · vim, tmux, integration, plugins
   • 02
     Project Layouts and Real Workflows~15 min · vim, tmux, workflow, remote-development
   • 03
     When to Use Vim+Tmux vs a Full IDE~11 min · vim, tmux, ide, tradeoffs

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8. 08🏗️Advanced Patterns & Neovim IDE

   0/4 lessons

   Treesitter, telescope, completion, debugging — the full Neovim IDE

   <p>Track 4 set up native LSP. This track goes the rest of the distance: completion that ranks across LSP + buffers + paths, structural text objects via treesitter, fuzzy finding for everything, git integration, file management, and the kickstart.nvim shortcut that gets all of this in one well-documented init.lua. By the end you have a Neovim that matches a modern IDE on the daily-use surface, while still launching in under 100ms.</p>

   Lesson list (4)

   • 01
     Auto-Completion with nvim-cmp (or blink.cmp)~14 min · neovim, completion, lsp
   • 02
     Treesitter and Telescope — Structure + Find~15 min · neovim, treesitter, telescope
   • 03
     Git Integration and File Management~11 min · neovim, git, files, oil
   • 04
     kickstart.nvim and Performance Tips~13 min · neovim, kickstart, performance, lazy-loading

   ✓Quiz · 5 questions→