On 5/19/06, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there some tutorial out there for a newbie starting with Vim7 to
learn how to program for it?
The "Write a Vim script" tutorial is bundled with vim.
You only need to know how to open it in vim. Here is how:
:he usr_41
vim will open document titled "Write a Vim script".
To read the document full-screen, enter this command:
:on
The beginning of the document is below.
Yakov
*usr_41.txt* For Vim version 7.0g. Last change: 2006 Apr 30
VIM USER MANUAL - by Bram Moolenaar
Write a Vim script
The Vim script language is used for the startup vimrc file, syntax files, and
many other things. This chapter explains the items that can be used in a Vim
script. There are a lot of them, thus this is a long chapter.
|41.1| Introduction
|41.2| Variables
|41.3| Expressions
|41.4| Conditionals
|41.5| Executing an expression
|41.6| Using functions
|41.7| Defining a function
|41.8| Lists and Dictionaries
|41.9| Exceptions
|41.10| Various remarks
|41.11| Writing a plugin
|41.12| Writing a filetype plugin
|41.13| Writing a compiler plugin
|41.14| Writing a plugin that loads quickly
|41.15| Writing library scripts
|41.16| Distributing Vim scripts
Next chapter: |usr_42.txt| Add new menus
Previous chapter: |usr_40.txt| Make new commands
Table of contents: |usr_toc.txt|
