[link] Vim 7.2 Scripting

Rundown on a number of simple things one encounters when starting scripting: version check, OS check, debugging.

[link] Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim

Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim by Ryan Paul on ArsTechnica.

Something about plug-ins and such. Lots of screenshots with Python source code, so I couldn't look deeper.

[link] my vi first steps

Handle With Linux's my vi first steps.

I presume the guy means "vim" as he's working with Linux and Linux for past 10+ years has "vi" as a symlink to vim.

P.S. Nice trick to use :wn from a macro - to make macro to go to the next file. When macro invoked with repeat counter N, it would be applied to N first files open for editing.

[link] vimdiff - Edit two or Three versions of a file with Vim and show differences

vimdiff intro on www.debianadmin.com.

VIM tips exchange on Slashdot

Link.

Flamewars Alert. This is Slashdot after all.

[link] vim scripts

From Sander Marechal: My list of must-have vim scripts.

[link] 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors

21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors

Unfortunately, VI and Emacs clones are not presented. Emacs itself is too bloated to be used by people who like to remain in control of their text editor - but there are number of decent Emacs clones.

From Wikipedia: Emacs clones and VI clones. VIM is listed in VI clones.

P.S. Most important Emacs shortcuts: Ctrl-g - end minibuffer editing, if any; Ctrl-x Ctrl-c - exit Emacs. Ctrl-g you need because often, after entering shortcut from another text editor, you might end-up in Emacs minibuffer (internal command line). Ctrl-x Ctrl-c will not work in minibuffer - so you need to press Ctrl-g. After exiting Emacs, type in shell "vim" and press Enter to start real text editor ^_^

[link] 100 Vim commands

100 Vim commands every programmer should know

Nice summary of vim commands.

P.S. Though apparently the people are messing up "vim" and "vi". As things stand right now, "vim" has absolutely nothing to do with "vi". Hey I worked in "vi" (on both Solaris 10 and HP-UX 11.x) - that was most frustrating 5 minutes in my life. The *NIX vendors do not even bother adding keyboard support. Solaris' "vi" proudly says that it wasn't updated since 1996.

[link] A more informative status line for Vim

A more informative status line for Vim by Linux.com.

[link] Making Vim easy

Tips: Making Vim easy by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier published on Linux.com

Though I can not recommend using VIM in 'easy' mode (:help easy). You would not learn VIM, nor would make it VIM really easier to you - most commands still require some level of knowledge of real vim modes.

P.S. Somehow, most important shortcut Ctrl-L was left out of this introduction. Pressing Ctrl-L allows you to input a normal or ex command to vim. I guess that idea of easy vim is to not bother user with the modes and commands. Yet main power of vim - and the whole point of using it - is in the commands. Without Ctrl-L, vim in easy mode is pretty lame imitation of M$Windows infamous Notepad.

[link] Vi Lovers Home Page

Vi Lovers Home Page - terrific resource for everybody. Piles of links - tutorials and FAQs.

Must read.

[link] Gentoo's VI guide

Learning vi

Pretty good for beginners - just like about any other document I have seen from Gentoo.

[link] basics of search and replace

Linux.com has few word to say about VIM's search/replace facility. Read on.

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1525255