Building or downloading VimEdit

• Building Vim overview, with links for more information, on how to build Vim (download source and compile)
• Where to download Vim how to download Vim to run on your system without building

Vim FAQEdit

• Vim FAQ in html
• Vim FAQ as plugin/help file
• Our tip on using the Vim FAQ

Vim references, tutorials, guidesEdit

• Seven habits of effective text editing by Bram Moolenaar (2000)
• Our tips for using Vim's help
• Printable PS and PDF versions of the Vim 7.2 User Manual
• A simple Vim reference (good for beginners)
• Keyboard cheat sheet and tutorial excellent for learning the essential commands
• Vim reference card, by command (pdf)
• Vim reference card, by functionality (pdf)
• Vim reference card, by functionality (tex)
• Vim quick reference card (various formats and languages)
• Purchase a Vim reference coffee mug
• A slightly advanced Introduction to Vim in Linux Gazette, provides an easy walkthrough for basic and intermediate Vim use
• Screencast Vim tutorials by Derek Wyatt walking through some simple concepts as well as more advanced topics and plugin demonstrations
• Vim scripting from ibm.com
• Vimcasts is a site with excellent screencasts about Vim

Vim booksEdit

• Information about books on Vim maintained by Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar, ICCF Holland
• Vim for Writers CC-licensed guide to Vim, (HTML, PDF), 2009
• Vim Recipes CC-licensed cookbook, (HTML, PDF), 2009
• A Byte of Vim by Swaroop C H CC-licensed ebook, (book, HTML, PDF), 2008
• The Vim book by Steve Oualline, New Riders, (PDF), 2001
• Errata for The Vim book maintained by Bram Moolenaar

Vim sitesEdit

• David Rayner (zzapper) has the Best of Vim Tips list.
• Luc Hermitte's Vim macros site has many plugins, ftplugins (mainly for C and C++), and more.
• Robert Melton's home for the #VIM Freenode channel with Vim information.
• Vim Regular Expessions 101
• Up-to-date online mirror of the Vim help

Vim tips on other sitesEdit

• Workspace efficiency
• Search don't scroll
• Taming your Vim config
• My commented 800-line vimrc
• Settings in vimrc and scripts for PL/SQL coding
• Enable thesaurus option
• Vim navigation fundamentals
• 3 powerful Ms macro mark map
• Using Vim as your bash ide
• Using Vim as your C ide
• Ctrl-x-magics
• Tips for writing Lisp code

See alsoEdit

• Vim scripts