01-04-2005
I'd vote for vi as well. Emacs might be popular, but I find its commands not as easy to rem, as they are on vi.
My personal useage, is usually across the network. I use vim to configure systems many miles away. I can simply SSH into a box, load vi, edit configuration files and I also use it to collaborate with an Author friend, while she writes her novels. We add in the Vim/Latex plug-ins, and I edit the books as if they were local.
Vim with all the available plug-ins, filters add alot more power to this tiny app.
Learning the commands are simple, and they make sense.
Once you learn vi/vim you'll soon be executing vi/vim commands in your GUI editors by habit, and you'll find it much more powerful in certain aspects, than other editors.
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vimtutor
VIMTUTOR(1) General Commands Manual VIMTUTOR(1)
NAME
vimtutor - the Vim tutor
SYNOPSIS
vimtutor [-g] [language]
DESCRIPTION
Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor. It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file.
The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands.
The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is
not found.
The optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like "it" or "es". If the [language] argument is missing, the lan-
guage of the current locale will be used. If a tutor in this language is available, it will be used. Otherwise the English version will
be used.
Vim is always started in Vi compatible mode.
FILES
/usr/share/vim/vim80/tutor/tutor[.language]
The Vimtutor text file(s).
/usr/share/vim/vim80/tutor/tutor.vim
The Vim script used to copy the Vimtutor text file.
AUTHOR
The Vimtutor was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado School of Mines using ideas supplied by
Charles Smith, Colorado State University. E-mail: bware@mines.colorado.edu.
It was modified for Vim by Bram Moolenaar. For the names of the translators see the tutor files.
SEE ALSO
vim(1)
2001 April 2 VIMTUTOR(1)