Vim

A fast, customizable, cross platform mode based text editor that usually runs in a console.

Vim is uniqe in that it is modal:

• text is written in insert mode
• navigation is performed in normal mode
• selections made in visual mode
• commands entered in command mode

Each has it's own keybindings.

Documentation

home	https://www.vim.org/
:help	https://vimhelp.org/

Locations

Unix
~/.vimrc	user config
~/.vim	user libraries, syntax, help, plugins, ...
${PREFIX}/share/vim/vim82	official config
${PREFIX}/share/vim/vimfiles	distro config
Windows
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%/_vimrc	user config
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%/vimfiles	user libraries, syntax, help, plugins, ...

Basics

vim intro

vim install

Usage

vim cli

vim diff

Configuration

viml

vim options

vim autocmd

vim keybindings

vim plugins

Components

vim commands

vim folding

vim buffers

vim registers

vim macros

vim ctags

vim tips/tricks