Beginner's guide to Vi Improved (vim)

Jesse Goerz

jwgoerz@users.sourceforge.net

Copyright © 2002 Jesse Goerz, NewbieDoc project.

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Revision History
Revision v0.16 January 2002Revised by: jwg
Initial release.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Installing vim
3. Vim's built in help
3.1. Tutor me!
3.2. Navigating vim's help
4. Modeful editing
4.1. Normal mode
4.2. Visual mode
4.3. Select mode
4.4. Insert mode
4.5. Command line mode
4.6. Ex mode
5. Common commands
5.1. Movement commands
5.2. Search commands
5.3. Simple editing/combination commands
6. Personalizing vim
6.1. vimrc files
6.2. Color Schemes
6.3. Syntax highlighting
6.4. Abbreviations
7. Mapping Keys
8. Writing Functions
9. Programming with vim
10. Example maps and vimrc files
11. References and links
12. Contributors
A. My examples
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