Hi Deepak, The book that was mentioned, Learning the vi and Vim Editors Seventh Edition is a good book for the most basic stuff but quickly becomes useless for any thing beyond the most basic stuff. I don't mean anything way beyond the basics just anything just past basics. I don't have any actual examples to point out because I stopped using the books a long time ago.
The help documentation in Vim is actually more useful than the book. I have been using vi/Vim for a long time and I am no master but I won't use another editor. I like this one too much. As has already been said, this is a very powerful editor with a lot of configurable options. It is a very difficult editor to learn but easier to use the more you learn how to use it. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Deepak adhikari <[email protected]>wrote: > I am trying to use this editor, searched stackoverflow.com (didn't ask > though) went to vim.org but very complex operations are explained and > found difficult to grasp. > > just trying to know some basic commands like how to start, exit, > save/writeout , delete some specific lines. Remove BOM form the utf-8 > file(going to the beginning and deleting this bit) > > I seem to not find the basic structure of the commands > > I could see > > "vim [commands] file .. > > > now in commands I am confused, what if I want to merge two commands > together. > > Lacking the information on how to load a file in buffer, as it talks a lot > about it. > How does it generally operates merging commands, writing out, deleting, > combining these commands , > searching some texts from a file. > > yesterday I wanted to use vim, and tried to learn it. > > basically what I exactly wanted is>> > > remove BOM from utf-8 encoded file, remove 2nd line of the text file which > was imported from windows machine. > > > thought it must be simple to use with such a famous/powerful editor but I > am lost in the complexity of its features .... talks about vim, Ex, vi, > command line, visual, so many things to see just to get something done. > > I would like to know if there are any start up guides, for users who came > from nano or some other editors ... > I am not used to editing texts from command line, but now is needed so > wanted to learn. > > hope some of you will not mind to reply me in more simplified manner .. > with some examples ... and in detail ... from starting it to saving it, and > exit (of course) > I hope it is not too much to ask. > > -- > Deepak Adhikari > > > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
