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            [0] => <div class="wikitext"><dl><dt class="tightenable top bottom">At first</dt>
<dd class="tightenable top bottom"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">Start typing something by pressing i.</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Exit vim by pressing Esc then writing :q and pressing Enter</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Save your file similarly but using :w myfile.txt</li>
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<dt class="tightenable top bottom">Getting help</dt>
<dd class="tightenable top"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">:help :help - how to use help</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">:help :helpgrep - how to use the searchable help</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Learn to use the :help.  Know the difference between :help foo, :help 'foo and  :help c_foo. --
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">Try ctrl-D completion on help topics --
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">Refer to the 
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            [6] =>  website for HTML versions of the Vim docs and electronic copy of the 
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            [8] => . Also has lots of other howtos and useful documents. --
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<dd class="tightenable top bottom"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">If you find yourself trying to do some major text munging on a file, and digging through the :help for esoteric regex tricks, consider using Perl. You can filter a block of text through a Perl find and replace easily:</li>
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<pre class="tightenable top">
!perl -pe 's?before?after?'</pre>
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            [14] => 's Vim advice</dt>
<dd class="tightenable top"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">Start with 
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            [16] =>  or the 
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            [18] =>  on this site.</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Don't worry about trying to know everything about vim, just learn features that are useful for what you are currently doing -- as time goes on, your personal featureset will grow.</li>
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            [20] => 's Vim advice</dt>
<dd class="tightenable top"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">Use :make and :grep instead of :!make or :!grep. Then use :cwin or :copen
to view the results of either make or grep in a coloured list. You can jump
to the corresponding line/file with either Return or when click on it, if
`mouse' is set to a (:set mouse=a).</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Get a decent colorscheme from 
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To apply the colorscheme, copy it to ~/.vim/colors and type
:colorscheme &amp;lt;name&amp;gt; (you can use tab completion here).</li>
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            [24] => 's Vim advice</dt>
<dd class="tightenable top"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">touch $HOME/.vimrc</li>
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            [26] => 's Vim advice</dt>
<dd class="tightenable top bottom"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">Read the 
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            [28] =>  page.</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Find and read lots of example vimrc files.  You can find a few on the 
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            [30] =>  page.</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Learn how to use visual and blockwise-visual modes.  Type :help visual-use to get started.</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Learn how to avoid using the arrow keys.  I cut out a piece of cardboard and put them over my arrow keys to force myself to learn how to navigate using the keys on the home row almost exclusively.  Once you learn how efficient vi keybindings can be, you'll never want to go back.</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">Learn how to use Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N to tell vim to complete the word you are currently typing.  This saves me a LOT of time when I am coding. (Or get 
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            [32] => , which saves me a metrix ton of time --
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            [34] => )</li>
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