Vim resourcesEdit

Books

• Vim Recipes: http://vim.runpaint.org/

Screencasts

• http://blog.eleutian.com/2008/01/18/VimScreencast1.aspx: A nice beginner’s intro to Vim
  • Part 2: http://blog.eleutian.com/2008/02/06/VimScreencast2.aspx
  • Part 3: http://blog.eleutian.com/2008/03/18/VimScreencastTutorial3SearchFindAndReplace.aspx
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2538831956647446078: "7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0"; a Google Tech Talk by Bram Moolenaar, creator of Vim
• http://justinlilly.com/blog/2008/aug/28/vim-screencast-selections/: a short screencast on different ways of selecting text with the keyboard
  • http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=3160050&fromSeriesID=316: by the same author, a screencast on installing plugins
  • http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=3160060&fromSeriesID=316: by the same author, on code folding

Cheatsheets

• http://worldtimzone.com/res/vi.html
• http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html

Other

• http://groups.google.com/group/vim_mac: MacVim Google group
• Buffers:
  • http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_buffer_FAQ: Buffer FAQ
  • http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching: "Easier buffer switching" tips
• http://jmcpherson.org/editing.html: "Efficient Editing with vim" by Jonathan McPherson
• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_unwanted_spaces: Highlighting unwanted whitespace
• http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html: basic tutorial with diagrams
• http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html.en: another tutorial
• "Scripting the Vim editor, Part 1: Variables, values, and expressions": http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html