Changes: Vim documentation

Revision as of 02:07, 5 November 2014

Building or downloading Vim

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 FAQ

Vim help documentation

Vim references, tutorials, guides

Seven habits of effective text editing by Bram Moolenaar (2000)
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
Scripting the Vim Editor by Damian Conway

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
Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought by Drew Neil, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, (book, PDF), 2012

Vim sites

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

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+==Building or downloading Vim==
-==Vim User Pages==
+*[[Building Vim]] overview, with links for more information, on how to build Vim (download source and compile)
-*Thomer M. Gil's website http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html is a must-read for Vimmers. Has good links to further resources.
+*[[Where to download Vim]] how to download Vim to run on your system without building
-*[[User:Luc Hermitte|Luc Hermitte]]'s website http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/ has many plugins, ftplugins (mainly for C and C++), library plugins, etc, and of course the traditional .vimrc.
-*http://stripey.com/vim
-*zzappers VimTips are at http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html
+==Vim FAQ==
-==Imported from the [http://u.webring.com/hub?ring=vim Vim Webring]==
-*[http://freenet-homepage.de/schuttvim Vim for MS Access, VB, and SQL]
+*[http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html Vim FAQ in html]
-*[http://www.naglenet.org/vim/vim.html Adrian's Vim Page]
+*[http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3298 Vim FAQ as plugin/help file]
+*[[VimTip1172|Our tip on using the Vim FAQ]]
-*[http://www.geocities.com/volontir Vim Regular Expessions 101]
-*[http://lanzarotta.tripod.com/vim.html Jeff Lanzarotta's Vim Page]
-==Other Vim wikis==
+==Vim help documentation==
+*[[VimTip882|Our tips for using Vim's help]]
-*http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vim_Tipbook
+*[http://vimhelp.appspot.com/ Up-to-date online mirror of Vim help]
-*http://wiki.macvim.org
+*[http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/usr_doc/index.html Vim 7.4 help as printable PDF and PS]
-*www vi-improved org/wiki ''by Robert Melton'' (the link has been obfuscated as this wiki is full of spam &ndash; see its recent changes)
+*[http://nathangrigg.net/2013/09/reproducing-vim-help-as-a-fully-cross-referenced-pdf/ Vim help as a fully cross-referenced PDF] (pdf [http://nathangrigg.net/vimhelp/ here] and script [https://github.com/nathangrigg/vimhelppdf here]).
-==Vim FAQ==
+==Vim references, tutorials, guides==
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070814184957/http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html Seven habits of effective text editing] by Bram Moolenaar (2000)
-*[http://www.geocities.com/yegappan/vim_faq.txt Vim FAQ in plain text]
+*[http://simpletutorials.com/?path=tutorials/vim A simple Vim reference (good for beginners)]
-*[http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/vimfaq.html Vim FAQ in html]
+*[http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html Keyboard cheat sheet and tutorial] excellent for learning the essential commands
+*[http://utools.com/vimrefcard.pdf Vim reference card, by command (pdf)]
+*[http://ls10-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~menge/vimquick.pdf Vim reference card, by functionality (pdf)]
+*[http://ls10-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~menge/vimquick.tex Vim reference card, by functionality (tex)]
+*[http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vim.html Vim quick reference card (various formats and languages)]
+*[http://www.cafepress.com/vimrefmug Purchase a Vim reference coffee mug]
+*[http://linuxgazette.net/152/srinivasan.html A slightly advanced Introduction to Vim] in Linux Gazette, provides an easy walkthrough for basic and intermediate Vim use
+*[http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/ Screencast Vim tutorials by Derek Wyatt] walking through some simple concepts as well as more advanced topics and plugin demonstrations
+*[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/ Vim scripting] from ibm.com
+*[http://www.vimcasts.org Vimcasts] is a site with excellent screencasts about Vim
+*[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-vim-script-1/ Scripting the Vim Editor] by Damian Conway
 ==Vim books==
-See http://iccf-holland.org/click5.html for information about books on Vim.
+*[http://iccf-holland.org/click5.html Information about books on Vim] maintained by Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar, ICCF Holland
+*[http://therandymon.com/index.php?/195-Woodnotes-Guide-to-Vim-for-Writers.html ''Vim for Writers''] CC-licensed guide to Vim, (HTML, PDF), 2009
+*[http://vim.runpaint.org/ ''Vim Recipes''] CC-licensed cookbook, (HTML, PDF), 2009
+*[http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim ''A Byte of Vim'' by Swaroop C H] CC-licensed ebook, (book, HTML, PDF), 2008
+*[http://www.truth.sk/vim/vimbook-OPL.pdf ''The Vim book''] by Steve Oualline, New Riders, (PDF), 2001
+*[http://www.moolenaar.net/vim_errata.html Errata for ''The Vim book''] maintained by Bram Moolenaar
+*[http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim ''Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought''] by Drew Neil, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, (book, PDF), 2012
+[[Category:VimInformation]]
+==Vim sites==
-The most recent book is "Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to get the Most out of the Latest Vim Editor", by Kim Schulz, published by Packt Publishing.
+*David Rayner (zzapper) has ''the'' [http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html Best of Vim Tips] list.
+*Luc Hermitte's [http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/ Vim macros site] has many plugins, ftplugins (mainly for C and C++), and more.
+*Robert Melton's [http://vi-improved.org/ home for the #VIM Freenode channel] with Vim information.
+*[http://vimregex.com/ Vim Regular Expessions 101]
+===Vim tips on other sites===
-''From the publisher:'' This is a cookbook packed with ready-to-use hacks that give solutions for some of the commonest problems users of the Vim editor encounter during their daily use. Each recipe follows a systematic approach with a self-contained description of the task it covers, how to use it, and what you gain by using it. The reader can read any of the hacks in this book without having to read any of the other hacks–where necessary they include cross-references to other relevant hacks. The minimum version of Vim required for each hack is clearly indicated.
+*[http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/159 Workspace efficiency]
+*[http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/160 Search don't scroll]
+*[http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/162 Taming your Vim config]
+*[http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.html My commented 800-line vimrc]
+*[http://sanjeev-oracle-world.blogspot.com/ Settings in vimrc and scripts for PL/SQL coding]
+*[http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/12/vi-and-vim-editor-3-steps-to-enable-thesaurus-option/ Enable thesaurus option]
+*[http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/8-essential-vim-editor-navigation-fundamentals/ Vim navigation fundamentals]
+*[http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/3-powerful-musketeers-of-vim-editor-macro-mark-and-map/ 3 powerful Ms macro mark map]
+*[http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/02/make-vim-as-your-bash-ide-using-bash-support-plugin/ Using Vim as your bash ide]
+*[http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/01/tutorial-make-vim-as-your-cc-ide-using-cvim-plugin/ Using Vim as your C ide]
+*[http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/01/vi-and-vim-editor-5-awesome-examples-for-automatic-word-completion-using-ctrl-x-magic/ Ctrl-x-magics]
+*[http://cybertiggyr.com/gene/15-vim/ Tips for writing Lisp code]
+==See also==
-==Tips with Vim references==
+*[[Vim scripts]]
-''TODO'' Need to sort out which of these are helpful; perhaps merge.
-*[[VimTip365|365 Vim Book Online]]
-*[[VimTip422|422 A Quick Reference]]
-*[[VimTip947|947 Comprehensive Vim Quick Reference Card]]
-*[[VimTip229|229 First thing to try before asking help]]
-*[[VimTip496|496 Hyperlinked html format of the Vim Reference Manual]]
-*[[VimTip882|882 Learn to use help]]
-*[[VimTip1365|1365 Links to other Vim tips]]
-*[[VimTip326|326 Quick reference guide and using Vim help]]
-*[[VimTip942|942 Simple Vim reference]]
-*[[VimTip179|179 Simplify help buffer navigation]]
-*[[VimTip1172|1172 Vim FAQ and other documentation]]
-*[[VimTip841|841 Vim reference card of common commands]]
-*[[VimTip951|951 Vim Tutorials]]
-*[[VimTip1246|1246 VIM at Wikibooks]]
 [[Category:VimInformation]]