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Vim Color Editor HOW-TO (Vi Improved with syntax color highlighting)

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor@yahoo.com

v4.0, 31 December 1999


This document is a guide to very quickly setup Vim color 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. Programmer's productivity improves 2 to 3 times with color editor like Vim. 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 gvim init files

3. Color Syntax init files

4. VIM Usage

5. Vi companions

6. Online VIM help

7. Vim Home page and Vim links

8. Vim Tutorial

9. Vi Tutorial

10. Vim Reference Card

11. Other Formats of this Document


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