Guide to VIM

Anyone have any good guides to using vim?

It would be for doing out tex docs and I am getting tired of emacs..

FruitLover

Within VIM, type:

:help<enter>

The help is confusing, or else I am starting at the wrong parts..

Skrynesaver

this is the obvious starting point

And as it says at the end open vimtutor and familiarise yourself with it that way, after that, learning to write macros in your .exrc this site provides some useful instructions/examples

ravydavygravy

Most vi cheat sheets you find are waaay to complicated, detailing dozens commands you'll never use or need.

Heres a fairly concise one: http://www.artweb-design.de/images/blog/posts/vim.cheatsheet.jpg

My personal list of most used vi(m) commands:

arrow keys        == moving around  
i                 == enter input mode (enter text)
esc               == go back to command mode (enter commands)
:q!               == quit and don't save
:wq               == quit and save

:0                == Goto line 0 (start of file - also :145 == goto line 145) 
G                 == Goto last line of file
Ctrl-G            == show me current line number

yy                == copy current line to buffer 
dd                == cut current line to buffer 
p                 == paste buffer here
x                 == delete current character

:g/abc/s//def/g   == Globally, where you find 'abc', substitute 'def'
:s/abc/def/g      == On current line, substitute all 'abc' with 'def'
:s/abc/def/       == On current line, substitute first 'abc' with 'def' 

/abc              == find & highlight next occurrance of 'abc'
?abc              == find & highlight previous occurrance of 'abc'
n                 == move highlight to next occurance of pattern

J                 == join this line to next line (make one line)

.                 == repeat previous command

Thats pretty much all I've needed for the last ~10 years of perl, shell and php coding... Theres lots of other cool stuff, but that'll be what you use most...