Dan Clark and Justin TerAvest

VIM Author: Bram Moolenaar

• 1988 Vim 1.0 Vi IMitation on the Amiga
• 1991 Vim 1.14 First public release
• 1992 Vim 1.22 Port to Unix, renamed to Vi IMproved
• 1994 Vim 3.0 Multiple windows
• 1996 Vim 4.0 GUI
• 1998 Vim 5.0 Syntax highlighting
• 2000 Vim 6.0 Folding, multi-language

• Edit Mode
• Command Mode
• Normal Mode

• vim creates backup files to prevent loss of data
• .filename.swp is left behind on system error

• Movement
• Editing
• Search and Replace
• Cut Copy Paste
• Configuration
• Help

• hjkl left down up right
• w, b Word forward, back
• 0 Column 0
• ^ First character
• $ End of line
• gg Beginning of file
• G End of file
• {, } Beginning, end of block
• % Move to matched bracket

• File Commands
• Indenting
• Other

• :e Open
• :w Write
• :q Quit
• :e! Revert
• :q! Force-quit

• :> indent
• :< outdent
• :>% indent block
• :<% outdent block
• :d delete block

• a,i,o Enter INSERT mode
• R Enter REPLACE mode
• Enter COMMAND mode
• u Undo
• n Repeat command n times
• . Repeat last modification
• r Replace one character
• cw Change word

• / Search
• s/// Search and replace
• n Find next
• Example:
• :%s/foo/bar/g

• my Beginning line of copy block
• y'y End line of copy block
• md Beginning line of cut block
• d'd End line of cut block
• P Paste

• :set paste
• syntax on
• autoindent, cindent
• ts=4, expandtab

• :help
• http://www.vim.org
• man vim

• Its not emacs
• vim is good

• Questions?