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The Woodnotes Guide to Vim for Writers

Randall Wood (www.therandymon.com)

Contents
List of Figures
Why Vim for Writers?
Gvim vs. Vim
Line Wrapping and Text Width
Files (Opening, Saving, etc.)
General Editing of Text
Getting Around with the Cursor
- Basic Movement
- Navigation by Search
Scrolling
Bookmarks (``Marks'')
Selecting Text, Cutting and Pasting
- Visual Mode
- Using Named Registers
Searching and Replacing
Using Ranges
Multiple Windows, Buffers, and Tabs
Inserting Special Characters
Dealing with DOS, Unix conversion problems
Spell Checking
Macros
Learning more about Vim
Acknowledgments, License, and Version History
About this document ...

Randall Wood 2009-08-04