<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon.ico">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.mcmillen.dev/blog/20070807-vim-tips.html">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.mcmillen.dev/feed.atom" title="Colin McMillen's Blog - Atom">
<title>Vim Tips | Colin McMillen</title>
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Quicksand:wght@500;700&display=block" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fira+Mono:500&display=block" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/pygments.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@mcmillen">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Vim Tips | Colin McMillen">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Here’s some links about learning/mastering vim. Why use vim?">
</head>
<script>
function fixEmails() {
const mailtoArray = [
'm', 'a', 'i', 'l', 't', 'o', ':',
'c', 'o', 'l', 'i', 'n', '@',
'm', 'c', 'm', 'i', 'l', 'l', 'e', 'n',
'.', 'd', 'e', 'v'];
const mailtoLink = mailtoArray.join('');
const anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (let i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
const anchor = anchors[i];
if (anchor.href == 'mailto:email@example.com') {
anchor.href = mailtoLink;
if (anchor.innerText == 'colin at mcmillen dot dev') {
anchor.innerText = mailtoLink.substring(7);
}
}
}
}
</script>
<body onload="fixEmails()">
<div id="page-container">
<div id="content-wrap">
<div id="header">
<div class="content">
<a href="/" class="undecorated">Colin McMillen</a>
<span style="float: right;"><a href="/feed.atom"><img src="/img/rss.svg" alt="Atom feed" style="width: 17px; height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1px;"></a></span>
<span style="float: right;"><a href="https://twitter.com/mcmillen"><img src="/img/twitter.svg" alt="@mcmillen"></a></span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="content">
<h1 id="vim-tips">Vim Tips</h1>
<p><em>Posted 2007-08-07.</em></p>
<p>Here’s some links about learning/mastering vim.</p>
<h2 id="why-use-vim">Why use vim?</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/06/03/the-vi-input-model/">The vi input model - laptop keyboards suck</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html">Why, oh WHY, do those nutheads use vi?</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="tutorials">Tutorials</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html">Graphical vim cheat sheet and tutorial</a> — <a href="http://www.glump.net/dokuwiki/howto/vim_graphical_cheat_sheet">PDF version</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div class="content">
© 2023 <a href="/" class="undecorated">Colin McMillen</a>. No cookies, no tracking.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>