Vim Regular Expressions 101. Power Vim Usage: Tips & Tricks for Everyday Editing. Tips & Tricks for Everyday Editing Smylers UKUUG Linux 2004 Conference • 2004 August This view lists all the slides from the talk in a continuous format. There is a PDF version available, suitable for printing on A4 paper. The slides are also designed to be viewed as a slideshow from this file with Mozilla or a compatible browser. 1 Intro text editing: crops up all over Linux once good at it, find many uses for it Vim: powerful — potential for great efficiency Emacs and other VI variants also good this talk: tips — features & customizations fast, random, dull to encourage reading the notes work in progress 2 Learning Vim Vim is far too big to learn quickly probably too big to learn slowly learning it as an extension of VI is often not helpful The only way to get the hang of Vim is a bit at a time — learning some things you can make use of, getting comfortable with them, then learning some more.
Some of the most useful Vim features don’t require any VI knowledge. 3 Moving About 6 Indenting. Vi/vim tips. Editing with vi/vim is a fairly wide subject. This section contains some interesting information for vi/vim users, as well as for those learning to use vi/vim. It also contains vi/vim related stories, such as how & why I began using vim (in 2005!). Some of the articles were initially published as blog posts, and the links below point to the original blog post. Apart from the actual article content, you may find some comments there which are only relevant to the moment they were written, I hope you will find the articles useful nonetheless.... If you want to find more content related to other matters, such as developing a compiler and virtual machine, extending Visual Studio, using the Cheetah template engine to structure a web site, etc... visit the main NGEDIT articles section. Articles Why, oh WHY, do those nutheads use vi?
Graphical cheat sheet & tutorial [March 2006] How to start learning vi/vim [Sept 2005] Why start using vi/vim/ViEmu? Best of VIM Tips, gVIM's Key Features zzapper. VIM Adventures. Learn Vim Commands, Sublime Text Shortcuts, Excel and more | shortcutFoo. Vim Screencast Tutorial #1 - Basics. Vim Tutorial Videos. Damian Conway, "More Instantly Better Vim" - OSCON 2013.