I suggest playing nethack to get comfortable with VIM navigation. Helped me a lot.
Vim PDF Documentation
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#22As a Kindle owner, I don't really appreciate PDFs...
As a regular PDF reader, I don't appreciate devices that can't make it easy to read an old and common format easily.
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#23Sorry to be that guy, but it should at least point out it's also accessible with :help within vim.
The OP knows this already. He stated it in his blog post:
> Vim’s documentation is incredibly complete and very useful. Unfortunately, it makes heavy use of cross references, and the cross references only work with Vim’s internal help viewer. I have no qualms about reading a reference document, but I would strongly prefer to do this kind of reading reclining on a couch with an iPad, rather that Control+F-ing my way through a read-only Vim buffer.
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#24Thank you Nathan. This will be nice to have the reference on my ipad while I am learning.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
2567 A4 pages in my PDF viewer. Quite neat. Honest question: why PDF? From within Vim one uses :help and the internal hyperlinks. What do people here think the value added of the PDF is? I won't be printing it!
> why PDF? I wanted to ask the exact question. Nobody sits down and read it from the beginning, and without links, there is no point of a PDF.
PDFs have links, including this one!
> The files are fully cross referenced using interal hyperlinks
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#26This is an ironic project because the Vim docs are one of the worst places to go for Vim help, partly due to their size and unsearchability.
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#27Not too many pieces of software out there that can say their software is so well-documented, it almost takes up 3000 pages.
Is help documentation almost 3000 pages or is the source almost 3000 pages? :D
Help documentation. I am honestly a little shocked by the length, I knew the docs were exceptional, but surprised by how long they are.
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#28It is amazing how much I rely on Vim on a daily basis and yet how small a proportion of it I actually know.
Same. I use d$ (i.e. d and the movement command $) to delete to the end of the line. Apparently you can just use D. Also, I didn't even know you could do N | to move the the Nth column (e.g. 30| moves to the 30th column).
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#29I have read the introducing blog post. I also appreciate the effort the author put into this, which will be useful for others. However, I think using an SSH client on a tablet to connect to a machine with Vim and reading `:help` from there would have been a better practice of Vim.
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#30not the best help book imo
This is wonderful, thanks!
I also use the vim docset with Dash constantly!