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Read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos
by sophacles 16y ago
Read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
Then go to your nearest vim and do an
:he navigation
and
:he change.txt
to get a fantastic overview.
- Symmetry 16y agoHonestly, just reading through the help system in general is fascinating.
- wyclif 16y agoTrue. People often underestimate the comprehensiveness of vim's :help. Maybe (and this is conjecture) it's because other utilities lack thorough help documentation.
- ecaradec 16y agoI think it's because most help system emebedded inside applications are useless. Vim is the only internal help I find useful.
- sophacles 16y agoYeah I totally agree -- I find no end of amusement how a large portion of answers in #vim are simple :he $ANSWER. For a couple reasons actually: 1. Amazingly the documentation covers that odd topic! 2. Just knowing where to search is a big enough task a whole chatroom has essentially devoted itself to it. 3. No one thinks it odd that vim is a big enough, esoteric enough space that being a fancy search bot doesn't bother people. :)
- blackman 16y agosometimes its hard to know what you need to look up in help to reach your solution though (I mean before you know the general vim subsystem you need).