Change your life forever with Vim

If you're spending a lot of time using a text editor then something like Vim could change your life forever.

Vim is a powerful text editor for *nix Operating Systems. It's lightweight and elegant but can be cryptic for a newbie.

Here are some basics:

There are several modes in Vim. These are Command Mode (default), Insert, Replace and some others. You can ender insert mode with the i key and escape back to command mode with the esc key.

You can move the cursor with the h j k l keys. This may take some getting used to.

Vim also allows you to search and replace, edit files and run commands too.

For more info you should see:

http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~xli/vim/vim_tutorial.html
http://www.raffy.ch/projects/vim.html
http://www.vim.org/
http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/editing.html
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html

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