Vim Resources

One of the goals this semester is to learn to use Vim: a real text (and programmer's) editor. Here are some resources to help you get started.

• Vim Wikipedia article
• use vimtutor command from the linux prompt to learn basic Vim navigation, modes, and more
• http://derekwyatt.org/vim/tutorials/index.html: range of video tutorials by Derek Wyatt
• Vimcasts: free screencasts about Vim
• VIM Adventures: Learn VIM while playing a game
• Learn Vim Progressively
• Vim simulator: student-tested this semester (Spring 2015)!

• Useful for editing text documents with Vim:
  • :set tw=72 (sets textwidth of each line to 72)
    • then just type, text will wrap from one line to the next automatically
  • to “reflow” a paragraph type, position your cursor anywhere in the paragraph and type gq in Normal mode
    • your paragraph will reflow to the textwidth you set
  • see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Automatic_word_wrapping for more info!

• configure your vim editor with Pathogen
  • note: I haven't used this yet, but it looks well worth learning once you're ready to customize your Vim

• more? let me know what helpful resources you find, and I'll add them here!