Introduction

This wiki should become the greatest resource about Vim by telling you about most useful plugins, workflows and settings

Contribute to this wiki::

• design-goals
• contributing
• github

missing something ?

create an todo item: todo

Learning Vim & getting help

• Run vimtutor first!
• Learn about :help command inside Vim
• See this tip: learning-vim-and-getting-help

Want to use Vim without modes? vim-without-modes

HOT :

development of Vim :

• fixing-vim-next-steps
• development
• recent-work
• improving-language-or-usage-of-it
• breaking-with-the-past
• javascript-support
• language-pro-cons

By topic:

license

saying-thanks

About the Editor VIM: What Vim is, how to install it:

• installation

VimL related (extending Vim):

• resources-for-beginners
• vimrc
• configuring-vim
• vim plugin managment
• designing-a-vim-plugin
• debugging-viml

for programmers:

• debugging-with-vim
• syntax-checking
• autocompletion
• autoclosing
• running-tools-or-compilers
• repl
• commenting
• sql

how to find a plugin?

• finding-a-vim-plugin

general text editing:

• text-snippets-skeletons-templates
• tags
• opening-switching-files
• cursor-movement
• indenting
• copy-paste-yank

• compiling-vim-from-source

other:

• asynchronous-communication
• vim-community-repositories
• addon-info.json

Vim sucks ?

Yes - its still productive. Anyway, let's collect things about Vim which should be improved (by someone somewhen ..)

• in-which-way-does-vim-suck
• in-which-way-does-viml-suck

random tips

Various topics ..

• tips

By language:

Here you'll find short introductions about which tools are most valuable. Tools (like tagging, snippets) which are useful for many languages should be added as topic. Then they can be referenced.

• c-cpp-like
• csharp
• haxe
• haskell
• html
• java
• javascript
• php
• python
• ruby
• scala
• tcl
• urweb
• viml
• ocaml
• latex

additional vim related sites (random order)

vim-related-websites

Vim-a-likes

Vim in the browser (JS by emscripten)

The modal editing found in Vim is that famous that many editors adopted at least some ideas: vim-keybinding-implementations

maintainers

This wiki will soon be too big for one person to maintain.

Some files will be maintained by individuals, others will be patched by the community as needed.