Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

Resources

We hope we’ve piqued enough interest and provided enough information to get you started with Vim scripts. An entire book could be devoted to the subject of Vim scripting. Luckily, there are other resources to turn to for help.

A good starting point is to go to the source of Vim itself and visit the pages specifically dedicated to scripting: http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php. Here you will find over 2,000 scripts available for download. The entire body of work is searchable and you are invited to participate by rating scripts and even contributing your own.

We also remind you that the built-in Vim help is invaluable. The most productive help topics we recommend are:

help autocmd
help scripts
help variables
help functions
help usr_41.txt

And don’t forget the myriad Vim scripts in the Vim runtime directories. All of the files with the suffix .vim are scripts, and these provide an excellent and fertile playground for learning how to code by example.

Go play. It’s the best way to learn.