Why Vim?

Searching something like "vim best editor", "vim vs IDE" Google, you can find too many results, and it's impossible to finish reading all those articles. Therefore, I selected some and post the link here.

Programmers

The video below is a talk given by Bram Moolenaar, creator of Vim. The handout for this talk is found on his website. However, he assumed that the audience had some basic knowledge on movements in Vim. For Chinese users, the slides below may help you. Otherwise, please go down to here

Vim Hacks from Yo-An Lin

1. Quick jumping of text: e.g. 5w,2(
   • The First Year of Using Vim
   • Vim Commands Cheat Sheet
2. Text objects: e.g. da<,ci"(,dci{(
   • Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide
3. Vim-Macro: e.g. 5w,2(
4. Folds: seeing structures and moving quickly
   
   • Vim Folding Tips @ Hacker's Blog
   • Make your own Vim folds (Chinese)

Writers

With many keyboard shortcuts, Vim enables you to move quickly between words, sentences and paragraphs, and thus focus on writing.
See Randall Wood's Vim for Writers blog entry as well as his notes.

Vim Advocacy

1. Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?
2. Vi Lovers

Vim Game

1. VIM Adventures

Vim E-Book

1. Vi IMproved—Vim by Steve Oualline