On 09/04/11 04:06, Tim Chase wrote:
On 04/08/2011 08:43 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
Well, I found time to work through the vim tutor exercise.
Pretty basic. Not sure I remember what I learned -- I liked
that it said don't try to memorize, to learn by doing
Nothing like practice to burn it in :) As mentioned in a previous email,
I forced myself to use nothing but Vim for a month and by the end of it,
there was no going back. The things I used regularly became natural; the
things I didn't use regularly got filed away in the "vim can do that if
I ever need it" part of my brain without memorizing the specifics.
Haven't the faintest idea how to use the manual, i.e., how to
open the files listed in the table of contents. I think I need
to get one of the books.
If you just type
:help
the top of the help-page it pulls up gives you tips on navigating the
help. Additionally, you can read
:help :helpgrep
:help quickfix
for searching through the help. Knowing regular-expressions helps a LOT.
-tim
(apologies if this is a dupe...weird SMTP/IMAP error)
There is also, as I said before, "help on using help", obtained by typing
:help helphelp.txt
followed by Enter, in a Vim running in Normal mode.
Best regards,
Tony.
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