6. Editing Files: the vim-editor

This chapter gives an elementary overview of the vim-editor. vim stands for vi-improved and adds many features not available in standard vi. In recent Linux distribution, vi and vim refer both to vim.

• 6.1. A 30 minutes tutorial
• 6.2. Some usefull vim-commands
  • 6.2.1. Highlighting
  • 6.2.2. Defining macros
  • 6.2.3. Working with multiple files
• 6.3. Getting help
• 6.4. Overview of some vi-commands
  • 6.4.1. Movement commands
  • 6.4.2. Editing commands
  • 6.4.3. Ex-commands
  • 6.4.4. Repeating and Undoing commands
  • 6.4.5. Opening, Saving and Quitting commands