This is the starting point for all editors of the Vim Tips wiki.
- Please see our policy introduction for how-to information.
- To follow changes to this wiki, and to look for new events and problem edits, use recent changes.
- To discuss a tip, please edit the tip page and add to the Comments at the bottom (see the discussion guidelines for why we avoid the discussion pages for tips).
- On other pages (for example, this page), you are welcome to edit the discussion page to talk about the content.
- If you want help editing, you could start with the tutorial on the Central Wikia, or see our editing help.
- There are more help pages in the help category.
- And even more on wikimedia.org
More about the Vim community can be found at vim.org.
Asking questions
On this wiki, we discuss how to improve tips, but we don't discuss how to use Vim.
Questions about Vim should be sent to the Vim mailing list. The newsgroup comp.editors also discusses Vim – see its Google Groups archive. IRC users should join the #vim channel on the Freenode network, server irc.freenode.net.
Questions about the Vim Tips wiki are best discussed on the vim-l mailing list. You are also welcome to edit the Talk (Discussion) page of any active user. You could view the recent changes, and click any blue Talk link (blue links refer to pages which exist), or edit the talk page of any active user.
We don't encourage questions about using Vim on the wiki because they distract from our work of improving the tip collection. In addition, while there are currently only a handful of active maintainers on the wiki, the mailing list, newsgroup and IRC channel listed above have thousands of active members who can all offer good support for Vim.
With all this in mind, you are welcome to add a comment to the bottom of a tip pointing out any deficiencies that you have found in the content of the tip (please don't use the talk pages).
Creating a screenshot
It's usually best to use text to explain your problem (Vim users generally like text!). However, you may occasionally need to make a screenshot to illustrate a bug, make a feature request, or demonstrate some point.
Use the following instructions for your platform.
Be sure to save the screenshot as a PNG.
Upload the image somewhere, such as Flickr or Imagebin, and provide the URL in your post to the mailing list.