[link] vi Introduction

vi Introduction. Obviously by "vi" they mean "VIM".

[link] Vim Tutorial

Vim Tutorial - with videos!

Bit too vi-compatible to my tastes. Otherwise most bases are covered.

[humor] Vim vs. Emacs

Vim vs. Emacs

[link] Customizing vim and coloring the terminal in OpenSolaris 2009.06

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/blog » Customizing vim and coloring the terminal in OpenSolaris 2009.06.

Hehehe. Somebody tries to make some use of Solaris.... Good Luck. Piece of advice though: upgrade to Linux, it's faster that way. Do not get me wrong... ... BUT WHAT THE F***?! This is year 2009 and Solaris still can't take care of colors?

P.S. BTW, Good Luck trying to use "TERM=xterm-color" though. Last I time I tried it on Solaris only to find that it is lacking something like half keyboard.

Really. Get over it, swallow your childish pride and get the Linux. It works.

[link] Speed-Typing in Vim With Maps and Abbreviations - Better Than a Clipboard

LinuxPlanet - Tips - Speed-Typing in Vim With Maps and Abbreviations - Better Than a Clipboard.

Some nice tips on how to use VIM's abbreviations to insert some dynamic (not static!) text like e.g. current date.

[link] LinuxPlanet - Tips - Turning on Unicode Support in Vim - Unicode in Vim

LinuxPlanet - Tips - Turning on Unicode Support in Vim - Unicode in Vim.

Though article is more about how to input all those fancy characters.

C++ vs. tags

One - at times very - annoying problem I had was that jumping to tag not very C++ friendly. Namely it doesn't consider ':' (colon) to be part of word under cursor. It finally bothered me to the point of reading documentation which promptly sent me to :help star where from I was sent to :help 'iskeyword'. In less than a minute I had a fix:

au BufReadPost *.cpp set isk+=:

'isk' is shorthand for 'iskeyword' and tells VIM what symbols should be considered to be part of (key)words. 'isk' is a list (as usually comma separated) of characters/character ranges and as with any other comma-separated lists, operators '+=' and '-=' do they job as they should.

That obviously has an impact on any VIM command which works with words - '*', '#', 'w', etc. Beware.

[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.

vim + grep = visual grep

Trick I'm using quite often and is worth mentioning:

vi -c ":grep -r something files_or_dirs"

That would start VIM and tell it to run grep right after that. Very convenient.