Tutorial: Vim
James Bunton on Apr 5th 2007
Vim is a highly configurable, advanced text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It features syntax highlighting, tabs, splits, find as you type, regexps, integration with compilers and much much more. Available for any OS you can think of, even in GUI form if you wish.
More details will be forthcoming, but you should really check out Vim. Used properly, it’ll speed up your coding dramatically.
To get started, run
$ vimtutor
from any Unix machine and work your way through to the end.
For an idea of the general philosophy of using Vim, have a look at this article.
Here’s a cheatsheet with some commonly used essential commands.
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