VIM

[Matt Navarre]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 05:40 pm, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have installed a VIM editor.
> > > When I create a new file with this editor, I can't type anything.
> > > What is wrong.
> >
> > I have not used VIM - installed it once, but never really used it.
> > But, it is basically like vi to use, I think. I have a very basic vi
> > HowTo that I wrote up for our sites.  It might help you get started.
> >
> > It is at:   http://scnc.k12.mi.us/howto/edit/vi.html
>
> I personally love vim. You can also try emacs, but you might as well get
> used to vi if you're going to run any *nix - vim is basically vi
> extended, although it will operate exactly like vi for the purists if
> you configure it to do that. It's not intuitive, but once you get used
> to it it's very efficient. I use it for all sorts of editing, including
> composing email in Mutt.  Joshua Lokken posted some good vim tutorials,
> and there's another one here: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9039
>
> Here's another vi tutorial:
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/10/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html

And, of course, there's always /usr/local/bin/vimtutor which is vim's 
'canonical' tutorial. Any vi tutorial will teach you the basics of what you 
need to know about vim, but vim is *so much more*, once you get the vi basics 
under your fingers.

>
> - jt
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