I've constantly heard good things about vim, and now I'm intrigued. The only thing that's putting me off is it's irregular keyboard controls. Does anyone know of any good beginners tutorials for vim?
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Vim comes with its own tutorial, for a start. Just run this in a terminal: The good thing about Beyond that, you can take a look at the links here: Vi Lovers page The nice thing about that page is that it briefly discusses the various links it provides, so you get a sense of which are better or worse and why. I would add that the best way to get comfortable with Vim is to use it exclusively for a bit. If you end up hating it, fine. Use something else then. However, the only way to train your fingers and brain is to use it. My fingers now do |
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Stackoverflow: Vim Tutorials |
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I found the instructional videos by Derek Wyatt on Vimeo to be very useful. He has uploaded 27 videos, starting with basic editing and describing more advanced features later on. |
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"A Byte of Vim" is a book which aims to help you to learn how to use the Vim editor, even if all you know is how to use the computer keyboard. |
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I think vim recipes is a good to-the-point book. |
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I'd start off with the manual page (man vim), but I can see why you wouldn't want to read through the entire thing. As such, this came up in a quick google search. It covers some of the more important points, although there are probably more in-depth tutorials. |
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The best way I know to learn vim is by watching the vi / vim video tutorial |
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In your terminal: Then in your opened vim buffer: When you get familiar with the touch type, you need some customizations to beautify it, like a beautiful color scheme, and an elegant font. Feel free to download my setup at GitHub. |
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Check this VIM game, its plain awesome: http://vim-adventures.com/ It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. Beat the game to master VIM. I finished 2 levels, 3rd under development it seems. Also check this. Its good: http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html |
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