On 12/11/10 21:14, egarrulo wrote:
Hello,
is there *complete* reference of Vim commands already available? I
mean, something along this one about Vi:
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/vi.html
Here:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/help.html#reference_toc
it says "|index.txt <http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/index.html>|
alphabetical index of all commands", but if I click on "index.txt", I
get redirected to main help page.
Disclosure: I'm not a Vim user, but I'd like to learn how much Vim
emulators I use differ from the reference implementation.
Thanks.
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Well, apparently that index.html link erroneouslylinks to the HTML
version of help.txt, rather than to that of index.txt.
So, here's how to get the index of all Vim commands:
1. Install Vim
2. Start it.
3. Once it is running, type ":help index.txt" (without the quotes, but
with the colon, and finish it by hitting the Enter key).
Vim will then show you the file index.txt, one of its many buit-in help
files.
However, like Marc said, Vim is more that a collection of commands, it
is also how to use them. I would not recommend to "learn" the Vim help
by rote, nor even to read all the help files top-to-bottom in sequence,
any more than you should read all the articles in an encyclopaedia in
sequence from A to B to C etc. to Z.
What I recommend is to read the help, after you have started using Vim,
like you would read an encyclopaedia: start by what you want information
about, then follow the hotlinks in the text, all that without leaving
Vim. Recently, a new help file has been added, about using the Vim help:
by putting together in one place information which used to be in various
obscure places, this change makes learning Vim much more painless. You
would get it by doing ":help helphelp.txt" or, if you don't care about
the heading, ":help helphelp".
Best regards,
Tony.
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