<!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>