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