Linux

Learning VIM

So you would think that as a programmer for many moons now that I would have considerable experience in VIM and VI, but I’m hear today to admit that I am not. For years I’ve gotten by with my favorite Windows text editor notepad++, but the geek in me wanted to know why everyone loves Vim so much. To that end the 2 things I started with are…

Downloading the Windows vim editor from [Vim.org][1]

Working through the tutorial at http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html

I can’t say I’m a convert yet, but it’s always nice to have another tool in the toolbelt. Here for your and my reference is [my quick VIM cheat sheet][2].[1]: http://www.vim.org [2]: http://visit.markjacobsen.net/vim-cheat-sheet/ “VIM Cheat Sheet”

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