v19.5, 2 Nov 2003
Abstract
This document is a guide to quickly setting up the Vim color editor on Linux or Unix systems. The information here will improve the productivity of programmers because the Vim editor supports syntax color highlighting and bold fonts, improving the "readability" of program code. A programmer's productivity improves 2 to 3 times with a color editor like Vim. The information in this document applies to all operating sytems where Vim works, such as Linux, Windows 95/NT, Apple Mac, IBM OSes, VMS, BeOS and all flavors of Unix like Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Sinix, BSD, Ultrix etc.. (it means almost all operating systems on this planet!)
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Install Vim on Microsoft Windows 95/NT
- 3. MS Windows Notepad and Wordpad Imitator in Vim
- 4. Setup gvim init files
- 5. Color Syntax init files
- 6. VIM Usage
- 7. Remote Vi - MS Windows QVWM Manager
- 8. Vi companions
- 9. Online VIM help
- 10. Vim Home page and Vim links
- 11. Vim Tutorial
- 12. Vi Tutorial
- 12.1. Cursor Movement Commands
- 12.2. Repeat Counts
- 12.3. Deleting Text
- 12.4. Changing Text
- 12.5. Yanking (Copying) Text
- 12.6. Filtering text
- 12.7. Marking Lines and Characters
- 12.8. Naming Buffers
- 12.9. Substitutions
- 12.10. Miscellaneous "Colon Commands"
- 12.11. Setting Options
- 12.12. Key Mappings
- 12.13. Editing Multiple Files
- 12.14. Final Remarks
- 13. Vim Reference Card
- 13.1. Vi states
- 13.2. Shell Commands
- 13.3. Setting Options
- 13.4. Notations used
- 13.5. Interrupting, cancelling
- 13.6. File Manipulation
- 13.7. Movement
- 13.8. Line Positioning
- 13.9. Character positioning
- 13.10. Words, sentences, paragraphs
- 13.11. Marking and returning
- 13.12. Corrections during insert
- 13.13. Adjusting the screen
- 13.14. Delete
- 13.15. Insert, change
- 13.16. Copy and Paste
- 13.17. Operators (use double to affect lines)
- 13.18. Search and replace
- 13.19. General
- 13.20. Line Editor Commands
- 13.21. Other commands
- 14. Vim as XML Editor
- 15. Build Your "WYSIWYG" HTML Editor With Vi & Netscape
- 16. Emacs - Old Habits Die Hard !
- 17. Related URLs
- 18. Other Formats of this Document
- 19. Copyright Notice