Vim Help

Vim is a vastly improved version of the popular Vi text editor, and is freely available for Windows, Unix, and many other operating systems. These pages contain some stuff which may be helpful to Vim users.

This site does not attempt to be a complete guide to Vim, but concentrates on things not available elsewhere.

Vim Tips highlights a couple of really handy Vim features that are not always obvious to people new to Vim (especially those graduating from Vi).

Spell-Checking Files explains how spell-checking can be done from within Vim, with details on highlighting misspelt words in red, adding words to a personal dictionary, and even spell-checking HTML files.

Editing HTML Files contains information on using Vim to edit webpages. It includes mappings for automatically inserting HTML tags and easily typing character entity references.

There is much information on customizing Vim. It is split up into these sections:

• Text Formatting — getting Vim to format text appropriately for different file types
• User Interface — making Vim a little more friendly
• Search & Replace — finding things more easily
• Key Mappings — redefining spare keystrokes to do useful things
• Terminal Settings — making Vim work sensibly in assorted terminals
• Gui Appearance — changing how the gui looks
• SLRN & Vim — using Vim with the SLRN newsreader
• Pine & Vim — using Vim with the Pine mailer

The sample .vimrc is a Vim configuration file which conveniently contains all of the above customization settings.

Vim Links is a list of links to other Vim-related sources. No, really — it is.