On 06/02/09 02:32, R. Hicks wrote:
> help autocmd
> help scripts
> help variables
> help functions
> help usr_41.txt
>
> I have looked and I was wondering if those were the "best" help files to
> learn how to use vimscript and to program vim.
>
> Robert
I think that (after running the vimtutor for a basic course in how to
_use_ Vim) you should start at usr_41.txt and proceed from there. (BTW
":help scripts" led me to a helptag named *debug-scripts* which may or
may not be what you want. OTOH ":help script" gets me to the
introduction to usr_41.txt.)
IMHO programming Vim and using it are not two tightly separate
activities, since most commands usable in scripts can be entered at the
Vim command-line (after hitting the colon key), and most Normal-mode
commands usable at the keyboard can also be used in scripts (ex-commands
directly, the other ones as operands of the ":normal" command).
You can see examples of how the language used to program Vim looks like
by looking at any *.vim script distributed with Vim (note, however, that
keymaps are in a special format). If you don't know where to start, try
:view $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
which is an example vimrc. You can even include it in your own vimrc by
writing
runtime vimrc_example.vim
near the top of your vimrc, then adding (if desired) other commands,
mostly after that line, to tweak its settings.
Best regards,
Tony.
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