#!SUITS » editor http://suits.it.usyd.edu.au/wordpress Sydney University IT Society Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:50:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Tutorial: Vim http://suits.it.usyd.edu.au/wordpress/2007/04/05/tutorial-vim/ http://suits.it.usyd.edu.au/wordpress/2007/04/05/tutorial-vim/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:27:08 +0000 James Bunton http://suits.it.usyd.edu.au/wordpress/?p=18 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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