Other Items on Vim

Installation

• Vim.org: The main vim page
• Download gvim73.exe to install on windows


• Two versions:
1. Command line: vim
2. GUI: gvim


• On Windows, you will probably want to choose the batch files option to get a command line version of vim


• Note for students in ITEC 320: Vim ada make command requires a project file - fixes are described in the 320 pages

Online References and Other Stuff

• Vim.org: The main vim page


• My Reference Page (lots of commands, operators, motion, objects)


• Other cool things:
• Vimperator
• shell vi key bindings put bindkey -v in .cshrc (works in tcsh; don't know about others)


• Dr. Chip's Vim Page has lots of nice stuff


• User Manual and other documentation is here


• From within vim, get User Manual with :h user-manual
• From within vim, get Quick Reference with :h quickref , or do a search for vim quickref


• Web search


• Wikipedia


• Some reference pages:
• Learning Vim
• A nice keyboard reference page
• A very complete reference (VIM Reference Card 3.0)
• Quick Reference Page 0
• Quick Reference Page 1
• Quick Reference Page 2
• Quick Reference Page 3

Books

• Vim.org books page


• Learning the vi and vim Editors RU Library Electronic Resources (7th Editions)


• Learning the vi and vim Editors (7th Edition) from Amazon


• Vi Improved (Vim)


• Hacking Vim

Advice

• Use help, vimtutor, online manuals, and the web


• Learn frequently used operations until they are muscle memory:
• Basic movement - character, line, word, screen, top, bottom: hjkl, w, e, ^F, ^B, gg, G
• Input: i, a, A, o, O, r, R
• Changing characters (r, R), words (cw), lines (cc, C)
• Delete: x, dw, dd
• Search: /foo, ?, n, N, f, F, t, T
• Substitute: :s/old/new, :%s/old/new/gc
• Yank and paste: yy, Y, p, P
• Swap lines and characters: ddp, xp
• Use counts
• Undo, redo: u, ^R
• Help: :help
• Ranges/blocks: v, V, ^V
• Use operators with movement, text blocks, ranges
• <TAB> completion (supertab plugin may be required)


• Add new commands as needed


• The more you learn, the easier it is to learn (because it's well designed)