Vimtutor is a great resource. If you go through the vimtutor lessons you will learn most of your core vim skills pretty quickly. I found it took me two iterations through vimtutor to really observe everything.
The responses to your question seem to have leaned a bit towards learning emacs. It's all up to personal preference, but if VIM has the advantage of having easier to remember commands (i.e. delete a word is daw). Also, if you prefer to use the graphical version of your editor (i.e. gvim or xemacs), gvim has the advantage of using the system's native font engine as opposed to xemacs which will make your eyes *bleed* on an LCD b/c it can't antialias. (In fact, this was the primary reason I decided to learn VIM over emacs in the first place. When starting out it's very helpful to have the menu bar there to assist you. <flame>Of course, there is the secondary benefit of not getting carpel tunnel b/c VIM is DESIGNED for touch typists unlike emacs' shortcuts.....</flame> As far as VIM resources go... A great quick read is "Efficient Editing With VIM<http://jmcpherson.org/editing.html> " And having a VIM quick reference <http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vim.html>card can be really handy Use the :help command. Forget how to use buffers? use :help buffers..etc There are some configuration settings you can use to make VIM more to your liking. As an example of what you might find in a .vimrc file, have a look at mine. <http://www.glue.umd.edu/%7Ecconroy/vimrc> On 12/18/06, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, Could anyone please suggest a good resource for learning how to use vi. Maybe I just need to dive in and teach myself vi. I'm planning on taking a week long Linux sys admin class, and I'd like to be well prepared. I've spent quite a few hours as a student using DOS EDIT, but I dont know if that appropriate or similar to pico, vi or any other editor used on Linux. Sincerely, Russ Main
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