Nadav Har'El wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:57:18 +0200: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about "Re: vim mappings for > Hebrew": > > the difference between them...In general, I would like to know where from > > you got this wealth of information about the editor. Can you recommend some > > book? > > Vim has a very extensive user guide.
Indeed. As extensive as the built-in docs are, though, they are not a source for popular external plugins or configuration snippets. I used to look for such on the wiki (at wikia) and mailing list archives; presumably there are third-party resources too these days. > In the old days, when I actually > used to compile the free software which I was using (and vim in > particular exists since 1991, before Linux distributions existed), I > would print out each program's user guide, and use free time like bus > rides to read these manuals, cover to cover. > > Nowdays, with Linux distributions, it's so easy to just run "vim" and > not even be aware that it has a user guide. But it still does. You can > also get reference information from inside vim: if you run vim and type > ":help hebrew", you'll get an explanation on the hebrew features which Another useful tip: :help hebrew<C-D> (triggers completion) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
