Aditya Kothadiya's Blog

I use Vim Editor every single day and really like it. Few years ago when I started learning Vim editor, I found it very daunting to learn all those commands and tricks, and then remember those commands, and most importantly – apply those commands for day-to-day tasks. Over the past years, I learned a lot, step by step. But I’m still not there yet. I’m not master yet. I’ve seen few my colleagues doing magic with Vim, which I can just appreciate but not understand and apply. I always wanted to learn more tricks and tips and master the editing with Vim. Finally I found some great articles compiled together to master Vim editor on this blog post – Vim is a great text editor.

Following are the useful links that you can peruse to master the Vim Editor -

• Find the appropriate version of Vim for your OS and install.
• Start learning the ropes with these tutorials:
  • Using Vi/Vim: A Brief Tutorial
  • Efficient Editing With vim
  • Splits and multi-file editing
  • The Vim commands cheat sheet – 1.2
  • Graphical cheat sheet
  • Vim Tips wiki
• Vim is very customizable, the settings are stored in the vimrc file which resides in the install’s directory:
  • Select colour scheme and font
  • Secrets of tabs in vim (set indent type and depth)
  • vimrc tips
  • Example .vimrc
  • Vim plugins

I found these links very useful, and I hope you’ll find them useful too. You may not be able to digest this all information at once. You’ll have to learn few things, and then practice it, and then master it. But now you have all the resources to master Vim at one place!