Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread Lifepillar
On 11/08/2017 22:30, Jose Caballero wrote: From the description (*), I would say yes, that seems to be exactly what I am looking for. You may find this guide interesting: https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore Life. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post!

Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread Tim Chase
On 2017-08-11 10:16, Grant Taylor wrote: > I'd suggest not modifying how Vim behaves / does thing while > getting started with Vim. > > However that does not extend to unconfigured Vim. I say this > because things like line numbers (:set number), search highlighting > (:set hlsearch), and

Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread Jose Caballero
2017-08-11 15:27 GMT-04:00 Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov : > 2017-08-11 21:36 GMT+03:00 Jose Caballero : >> I reply to myself so I don't pick any particular answer. >> Thanks a lot for your comments. I will have a look to those books. I >> have SAFARI

Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov
2017-08-11 21:36 GMT+03:00 Jose Caballero : > I reply to myself so I don't pick any particular answer. > Thanks a lot for your comments. I will have a look to those books. I > have SAFARI account, so I can check them for free :) > As I said, I am not that much concerned

Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread Jose Caballero
I reply to myself so I don't pick any particular answer. Thanks a lot for your comments. I will have a look to those books. I have SAFARI account, so I can check them for free :) As I said, I am not that much concerned about learning editing features, or things I can do "with my fingers" when

Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread Grant Taylor
On 08/11/2017 09:53 AM, John Passaro wrote: > To my mind, the short answer is learn regular, unconfigured vim first. I'd suggest not modifying how Vim behaves / does thing while getting started with Vim. However that does not extend to unconfigured Vim. I say this because things like line

Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread John Passaro
This is a great question. To my mind, the short answer is learn regular, unconfigured vim first. Use vimtutor (see :help vimtutor) to get started if you're really at zero and have no idea even what to search for with :help. To go deeper and really set yourself up for powerful configuration, it

Re: A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread arocker
> > What I don't seem to find is a documentation newbies-friendly to > custom configure vim. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529833.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/11687.do https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html Are good places to start. "Conway vim"

A very naive question: any doc (book, web page, ...) to learn step by step how to custom configure vim?

2017-08-11 Thread Jose Caballero
Hi, first, I sincerely apologize for asking in this forum a question that I believe is trivial for most members in the list. However, I think you will understand why I am asking it here. I am regular VIM user, even though I only know around 1% of the user's features. But that is fine, since I