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 <adhikarideep@gmail.com> 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.
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