VM INSTANCE // Neovim Tutor · demoshell/tui:nvim-tutor

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This VM is emulated in your browser, so software can feel slower here than it does on a real machine.

Neovim Tutor is the interactive lesson that ships inside Neovim, the successor to the classic vimtutor. It is a text file that teaches you to edit itself: each lesson asks you to move, delete, change or save something right there in the buffer, so you learn Vim by doing the thing rather than reading about it.

The lessons cover what most people need on their first day — moving with h, j, k and l, switching between normal and insert mode, deleting and putting text, undo, searching, substituting, and saving and quitting — in about half an hour. Everything you learn here works in Vim, in Neovim, and in the vim modes of most other editors.

The demo opens with the tutor loaded, so there is nothing to set up: read the first lesson and follow its instructions in the file itself. If you get stuck, Esc returns you to normal mode, u undoes, and :q! quits without saving. The VM is private to your browser tab; nothing you type leaves it.

Keys to know

`h j k l`	move left, down, up, right
`i`	start inserting text
`Esc`	back to normal mode
`x`	delete the character under the cursor
`dd`	delete the line
`u`	undo
`w`	jump to the next word
`0 / $`	start and end of the line
`:w`	save
`:q!`	quit without saving

Install Neovim Tutor on your own machine

Alpine	`apk add neovim && nvim +Tutor`
Debian / Ubuntu	`apt install neovim && nvim +Tutor`
macOS (Homebrew)	`brew install neovim && nvim +Tutor`

This VM was last built on Aug 19, 2026. How Demoshell demos work →

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