More information can be found in
* Eli's Vim Page http://www.netusa.net/~eli/src/vim.html * The Vi Lovers Home Page http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi.html
There is a reference card which is only valid for version 5. It is available in Postscript by sending email to raul@turing.iquimica.unam.mx. Please specify a subject as follows:
* ``send reference card'' for letter version * ``send reference card a4'' for a4 version * ``send reference card tex'' for the original LaTeX source
Oleg Raisky olrcc@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu has created a reference guide for Vim and is available at http://scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~olrcc/vim/. There are versions available for A4 and US Letter paper sizes.
There are three mailing lists for Vim (description to follow). You can join any of the lists by sending an empty mail message to the appropriate list handler. If for any reason, things don't work, contact vim.org>.
* To (un)subscribe to the Vim Help list
mail vim-(un)subscribe@vim.org
* To (un)subscribe to the Vim Announcements list
mail vim-announce-(un)subscribe@vim.org
* To (un)subscribe to the Vim Development list
mail vim-dev-(un)subscribe@vim.org
Each mailing list serves a different purpose and you should not crosspost between them. This is a brief description of each list:
vim@vim.org For discussions about using existing versions of Vim: Useful mappings, questions, answers, where to get a specific version, etc. vim.org> For discussions about changing Vim: New features, porting, etc. vim.org> Announcements about new versions of Vim and also beta-test versions and ports to different systems. No discussions here, please.
If you have a question about the usage of Vim then please post it to comp.editorsor to the vim mailing list. Please note that if you send a message to a Vim mailing list but are not subscribed, your message will be discarded. You must subscribe in order to send mail to the mailing lists.
Do not send mail to the mailing lists for subscription or unsubscription. (The maintainer of the list hates that! So do the people subscribed to the lists.)
There is an archive available for the announcements made on the vimannounce mailing list at http://www.findmail.com/listsaver/vimannounce.html.
There is also a mail archive available by FTP if you need to check out old messages sent to one of the other lists. They are available at:
ftp://ftp.ii.uib.no/pub/vim/mail-archive/vim/maillist.html ftp://ftp.ii.uib.no/pub/vim/mail-archive/vimdev/maillist.html ftp://ftp.ii.uib.no/pub/vim/mail-archive/vimannounce/maillist.html
http://www.vim.org/deve.html#bugreport to see what type of information should be sent when making a bug report. There is also a script included with newer versions of Vim, which can be used to create a bug report.
We are looking for someone to take over the tasks of our previous bug maintainer. If you are interested, send a message to Bram bram@vim.org.
If you have patches that you would like to submit for approval and incorporation in future versions of Vim, you can send them to Bram bram@vim.org.
This FAQ will be posted on a (hopefully) regular basis to the comp.editorsnewsgroup. The latest version can be found on http://www.grafnetix.com/~laurent/vim/faq.html. It will also be mirrored at http://www.vim.org/faq/. Eventually, it should make its way into news.answersand rtfm.mit.edu.
You can also find a searchable version of this and many more FAQs at the Hypertext FAQ Archiveat http://www.landfield.com/faqs/.
This FAQ covers mainly Vim-specific questions. You may find more information suitable for most Vi clones by reading the Vi FAQ. It is posted regularly on comp.editors. You can also find a copy at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.editors.
Please note that although I maintain the FAQ, I am not the best resource to answer questions about Vim. If you send a question about using Vim diretly to me, 9 times out of 10 I will redirect you to the Vim mailing listor to comp.editors. So you might as well send your questions directly there since you're liable to get a more accurate and useful response than I could give you.