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Vim is great if we invest time to learn to use it. Editing Kubernetes YAML files in Vim should be as natural as breathing.

Getting Started with Vim for CKAD exam

First things first

Put your mouse away, forget you have a touchpad and keep your hands on the keyboard.

Open a new file in Vim

vim vimisawesome.yaml

If the file vimisawesome.yaml does not exist, Vim opens a new file.

Send vim to background

If you viewed some resource in the terminal and need to see the output again, but now you are in vim editing a document, don’t leave Vim, just hide it.

Put vim to sleep, zzzz…

control z

The output in the terminal shows that Vim is stopped:

[1]+  Stopped                 vim vimisawesome.yaml

Bring vim to foreground

fg

Now you can continue to edit the file in Vim.

Congratulations!

Practice these steps to make using Vim second nature, hiding it and bringing it back instead of closing it and opening again.

Next: Vim for CKAD - exercise 5 - hide vim, edit multiple files