Calmar's Vim Tips

• Vim Homepage
• Very good Tips from Bram Moolenaar about editing habits
• First to know: VI keybindings (sorted alphabetically)
• Additionally (very useful to know): Quick-Reference reference (or in Vim type :he quickref)
• Some efficient vim editing Tips
• Best Vim Tips by zzapper
• Programming / Scripting in Vim: usr_41
• Vim and Colors:

  On a 256 color xterm (or urxvt with the 256color patch), set TERM=xterm-256color e.g. in ~/.bashrc. Source it.

  Then may check your colors with this color-printer script (256 color output). May also just use: 'tput colors' for the number of supported colors).

  Set t_Co=256 in your .vimrc. Now may take a 256 capable colorscheme (inkpot.vim, mine, ...) and may additionally tweak it. (Lookup the numbers on this 'about' color-chart: xterm <-> rgb, or use 'tput' or however).

  Note: there are also other 256 color capable terminals like rxvt, konsole, screen, pterm...

  For a quick-update of your color-setup (while you tweak it), may use a mapping like:
  map <F8> :update<CR>:colorscheme colorconfig<CR>
  in your ~/.vimrc.

  My actual dark / light colorscheme (according sshots: dark / light).

  Gvim and Vim in comparison

• German: Nice Documentation on http://www.ostc.de-> vi(m).pdf   or here
• German: highly recommend Book: ISBN: 3-8266-1425-9
  may order here or at your local bookstore :)
  
• My .vimrc file
• Vi bindings in Bash
• Keybinding/mapping/Keyboard layout change for ms-windows users (2000/XP): ms-keyboard fix (esc to caps-lock e.g.) You just write there a key into the registry. You could later delete it again without any harm.
• Some other personal Vim Tips
• When you use another editor, you might want to check out this editing-test ;)

Remapping

Well, the biggest disadvantage of VIM (ESC far off located) is easy to solve :)

• it's easy to bind <ESC> e.g. to the Caps-lock key, with xmodmap or the xkeycaps utility or have a look at that vim Tip. Under M$Win you can setup a key for the registry.

May send comments to: mac@calmar.ws, thanks!