Vim Editor HOWTO (Vi Improved with syntax color highlighting)

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor@yahoo.com

v1.0, 14 October 1999

This document is a guide to very quickly setup Vim editor on Linux or Unix systems. The information here will improve the prodcutivity of programmer since Vim editor supports syntax color highlighting and bold fonts which improves the "readability" of program code. The information in this document applies to all operating sytems where Vim works that is - Windows 95/NT and all flavors of Unix like Linux, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Sinix, BSD, SCO, etc..

1. Introduction

2. Setup vim init files

2.1 Xdefaults parameters
2.2 Sample vimrc file
2.3 Sample gvimrc file

Vim Editor HOWTO (Vi Improved with syntax color highlighting)

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor@yahoo.com

1. Introduction

2. Setup vim init files

3. Color Syntax init files

4. VIM Usage

5. Online VIM help

6. Vim Home page and Vim links

7. Other Formats of this Document