History and effective use of Vim

1 · Joe Nelson · July 19, 2019, 6:18 a.m.
This article is based on historical research and on simply reading the Vim user manual cover to cover. Hopefully these notes will help you (re?)discover core functionality of the editor, so you can abandon pre-packaged vimrc files and use plugins more thoughtfully. physical books To go beyond the topics in this blog post, I’d recommend getting a paper copy of the manual and a good pocket reference. I couldn’t find any hard copy of the official Vim manual, and ended up printing this PDF using ...