(Random) essentials

Markdown

Learn markdown(this is a markdown document 🤓)

Vim is everywhere so no matter if you ssh into a place or try to edit a file in a container, you are going to need it.

Here is a super minimal cheat sheet:

# edit/create a file
vim path/file

Now the shortcuts:

shortcut	function	note
`:h<enter>`	help	a bit overwhelming
`:q<enter>`	quit	immediate instinct after looking at help 🤣
`:q!<enter>`	quit ignoring changes	! means, that you actually mean it and can be combined with a lot of commands
`:w<enter>`	write / save file
`:x<enter>`	save and exit
`:x!<enter>`	force save and exit
`11G`	go to line 11
`$`	go to last char in line
`dd`	delete line
`x`	delete char
`i`	enter insert mode	that is where you can actually edit stuff - press escape to exit insert mode
`<esc>`	exit insert mode
`<ctrl>v`	visual block	then use cursors to edit selection
`x`	cut
`p`	paste

allows you to remotely and securely log into computers - man ssh should be available on any shell.

There is a lot of other tutorials - your typical use cases will be:

Once ssh is set up correctly scp, git and a lot of other programs, that rely on ssh under the covers are fun to use too.

Yes despite the fact, that m$ bought them, we use them and you have to enable 2fa

https://yaml.org/ some love it for good a reason, some hate it for another good reason, but atm there is just no way around it.

https://www.json.org/json-en.html similar love and hate situation like with yaml - also no way out.

If you think parsing or serializing CSV is trivial, you have been warned.

Fast, compact not human readable - not necessary for most use cases