Vim documentation

From Vim Tips Wiki

[edit] Vim sites

• Robert Melton's home for the #VIM Freenode channel with Vim information.
• Luc Hermitte's Vim macros site has many plugins, ftplugins (mainly for C and C++), and more.
• Stripey's Vim Help has useful tips.
• David Rayner (zzapper) has the Best of Vim Tips list.
• Thomer M. Gil's Vi Lovers Home Page has background information for vi and its clones, including Vim, with useful links.

[edit] From the Vim Webring

• Vim for MS Access, VB and SQL
• Vim Regular Expessions 101
• Jeff Lanzarotta's Vim Page

[edit] Other Vim wikis

• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vim_Tipbook
• http://wiki.macvim.org

[edit] Vim tips on other sites

• 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 editor navigation fundamentals
• 3 powerful Ms macro mark map
• make vim as your bash ide
• make vim as your c ide

• add bookmarks inside vi and vim editor
• ctrl-x-magics

[edit] Vim FAQ

• Vim FAQ in plain text
• Vim FAQ in html

See our tip on using the Vim FAQ.

[edit] Vim books

• 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

[edit] Vim references, tutorials, guides

• 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)
• How-to explanations of various tasks; search and replace; vimrc; general tips; guide on writing an indent script
• Wikibook on Vim
• 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

[edit] Max OS X

• Using ctags, ObjectiveC, Cocoa (OpenStep) syntax file [Original link broken | Archive]

[edit] Lisp

• Tips for writing Lisp code

[edit] See also

• Vim scripts

[edit] Comments