to add:
http://www.linux.com/search/index.phtml/vim/
page: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-06/websites_09.html
(Category) "Documentation"
The Vim Homepage
https://www.vim8.org/
text:
Get a handle on the editor that strikes fear into the heart of newbies
everywhere, Vim. Vim is the most popular vi clone for Linux, and the Vim
homepage has tons of information on using Vim and how to customize it.
page: http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe/1997/03/
link: http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe/1997/03/Quickrefs/vimref.ps
author: Peter Zitzelsperger
size:  (42K)

November 2001 - SME online - 2001-11-7

http://www.sme.sk/clanok.asp?rub=pr_pocit&cl;=154109 (local copy)

February 2001 - "Linux Journal" [ISSN ?]

pages 140 - 146: "That's Vimprovement! A Better vi" (Be a better editor - try Vim) by Steve Oualline. Steve manages to explain the main Vim features in five pages, with pictures and examples. From using undo/redo and multiple windows, via syntax highlighting and :make, to recording and executing a macro.

October 2000 - Linux200.nl conference, 9-10 Oct 2000 in Ede
The continuing story of Vim

The paper submitted by Bram for the Linux200.nl conference, taking place 9-10 Oct 2000 in Ede (Netherlands)

Author: Bram Moolenaar

September 2000 - "Software Design" [ISSN 0916-6297]

http://www.gihyo.co.jp/SD/index-j.html

Author: Takuhiro Nishioka [email protected]

Contents: "Hajimete no Vim (Learning the Vim editor)"

Language: Japanese

Scan of article: http://www.win.ne.jp/~takuhiro/image_files/vim_software_design.png

August 2000 - OS/2 eZine [001114]
Title: Vim for OS/2 (local copy)

http://www.os2ezine.com/20000816/vim.html

Author: Richard R. Klemmer [email protected]

"Why use Vim? .. if you ever have to telnet into your OS/2 system, you won't be able to use any of the Presentation Manager programs, such as EPM, so you will need at text mode program to edit any files. You can use ***** which comes with OS/2, but I think you'll find that this pales in comparison to what you can to with VIM."

July 2000 - LinuxNewbie.org
Title: Introduction to Programming in C/C++ with Vim

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/programming/intro_c++.html

Author: Keith Jones [email protected]

Contents: Mentions tags, C-style indenting, QuickFix mode, some useful keystrokes (jumps), substitution command, misc features, and a few links.

March 2000

Title: Interview with Bram Moolenaar

Media: PCRevue

original

Title page and contsnts:

http://www.pcrevue.com/buxus/generate_page.php3?page_id=148

local copy

Author: Juraj Bednar [email protected]

November 1999

Title: VIM: Vi IMproved!

Media: Linux Magazine France

scan of article (210K)

Author: Henri Dumoulin

"While some prefers 'clickodromes', advanced users prefer lighter interfaces and rather in a console. This is typically the case in text editors. On one side: Gnotepads, Knotes and other notepad clones. On the other side: the never-ending dual VI/emacs. Let's have a look at the free version of VI written by B.Moolenaar : VIM 5.5"

October 1999

Title: An Interview with Vim Authors

Media: Effervescence (Magazine de l'Association des Ingénieurs EFREI)

Author: Hervé Foucher

In English: http://web.efrei.fr/aiefrei/effervescence/123/vim.en.html

In French: http://web.efrei.fr/aiefrei/effervescence/123/vim.fr.html

In Chinese: effervescence.interview.cn.html Translated by [email protected] [010503,010607]

October 1999

Title: Text Editors for DOS and Windows

Media: IEEE.org (IEEE Electronic Communications)

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/INST/oct99/inf_hwy.html

Author: Bob Alden [email protected]

Local copy (text only): ieee.oct99.inf_hwy.txt [7K]

October 1999

Title: Linux Advanced Workshop #2

Media: PCPlus

http://www.futurenet.com/pcplus/article.asp?id=11723

Author: Chris Jones

Issue 156, pages 187/188. Section "Hands On", Linux advanced workshop. Written by Chis Jones. It is two pages, and goes from the first commands to a few more advanced topics.

There are two pictures. The first shows the Vim 5.3 startup screen (although the article mentions version 5.4). The other shows a message in the comp.editors newsgroup from Sven Guckes to Michael Soulier, subject "tabs in VI -> Vim and listchars". It's shown with syntax highlighting.

The included CDROM contains Vim-5.4 with the runtime archive and RPMs for RedHat.

September 1999

Title: From Linux to FreeBSD

Media: Daemon News - Web Magazine

http://www.daemonnews.org/199909/adventure.html

Author: Justin Hawkins [email protected]

".. Within a few hours (unfortunately I'm still using a 28.8K modem) I had compiled and installed all my essential software, Samba [3], Apache[4], Ghostscript[5] and of course vim[6]. [...] [6] VI iMproved. Adds many features to standard vi, including colour syntax highlighting for program code."

August 1999

Title: Using vi - an introduction

Media: IEEE Electronic Communications

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/INST/aug99/inf_hwy.html

Author: Bob Alden [email protected]

Local copy (text only): ieee.aug99.inf_hwy.txt [7K]

August 1999

Title: And the Winner is...

Media: LinuxWorld.com

http://www.linuxworld.com/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html

The results to the LinuxWorld Editors' Choice were given on Aug 11th. Here is the result of the category "Text Editors": "Text Editing -- Winner: Emacs -- Runner-up: Vim"

Vim: What Vim lacks in features (as compared to the feature-heavy Emacs), it makes up easily in speed and simplicity. Vim is the ideal editor for the kinds of quick jobs one must always do under Linux, such as the editing of text-based configuration files or shell scripts. In this case, we chose not to go to the extreme of simplicity, but to balance speed and simplicity with power. Vim seems to find the best balance of the editors we tried, and gets an extra boost because it is an extension of vi, the simple editor that most Unix users seem to know -- if not sooner, then later.

June 1999

Media: LinuxWorld

Linux development: CLI, Emacs, or IDE

http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-06/lw-06-vcontrol_1.html

KDE developer and evangelist Kurt Granroth has a different idea. When I asked him about his preferred development environment he said "I use vim (not just vi -- only vim will do) with egcs and gdb."

February 1999

Title: An Interview with the VIMpire

Media: EXT2.org

http://www.ext2.org/99/02/vim.html

Local copy: vimpire.html

Author: Rob Kennedy [email protected]

Bram Moolenaar answers some FAQs: What is Vim? How did Vim start off? How close to Vi is Vim? What are the best improvements?

October 1998

Title: Inside Slashdot

Media: Slashdot

http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-10/lw-10-slashdot.html

Slashdot's Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco) takes us through the technical changes his popular Web site has undergone in the last year and a half...
"...but as Slashdot's popularity grew, the response became more and more sluggish. During peak hours, the machine's load level would climb to 10.0 (A load of 1.0 refers to one fully busy CPU; 0.50 to 1.50 is normal) or even higher. Even at that point, telnet sessions running pine and vim remained usable. I was quite impressed. .."

September 1998 - Wandering-Man.com

The Vim text editor for Java programmers - "Not Only, but Also.."

http://www.wandering-man.com/Java/vim/java_Vim.html

Author: Allan Kelly [email protected]

Nice article with screenshots.

September 1998

Title: Extended Standard

Media: "iX 9/98", page 67

Author: Garry Glendown [email protected]

Article in English

Article in German

A one-page article on vim-5.1 mentioning "Vi Improvement" as "having many options".

June 1998 [980429]

Revisiting VIM

Media: "Linux Gazette", Issue 29

Author: Andy Kahn [email protected]

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue29/kahn.html

(List of) Features, Syntax highlighting, Built-in Scripting, Visual Text Selecting (indenting, deindenting, filtering), C and C++ tags. With a dozen screenshots.

February 1998

Linux - 2 Cents about vim for pico users

Media: "Linux Gazette", Issue 25

Author: Sven Guckes [email protected]

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue25/lg_tips25.html#vim

Sven Guckes gives a tip for users of the editor "pico" who are used to "justify" (read: reformat) the current paragraph with CTRL-J. Here's how to do this with Vim: nmap <c-j> vipgq nmap <c-j> gq

January 1998

Title: New Editor Versions

Media: "Linux Gazette", Issue 24

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue24/issue24.html

This issue quotes the Usenet article

[email protected]

Vim is probably the most featureful of the VI-style editors. Judging by newsgroup postings, it may be the most popular as well. With the release of vim-5.0s, vim 5 has finally reached a beta rather than alpha state. This revision has a really well-implemented syntax-highlighting system for many programming and shell-script languages, and it's not too difficult to adapt to new file-types and languages. The down-side is that vim is growing larger, and is beginning to lose the quickness and low memory-usage that has been a hallmark of VI-style editors. [...]

June 1997

Title: VIM Programming Perks

Media: "Linux Gazette" - Issue 18

Author: John M. Fisk [email protected]

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue18/wkndmech.html#vim-perks

John gives some hints on programming with Vim-5.0e: GUI, syntax highlighting, :help, tags, exuberant ctags, :split and window commands (CTRL-W), using RCS, things to do with the current file (printing, spell checking, read in other data), running :make, unlimited undo, support for compressed files; sample setup, and eleven screen shots.

February 1997

Title: Pick an Editor, Any Editor

Media: "Linux Gazette" - Issue 14

Author: Jens Wessling [email protected]

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/vim.html

Mentions the "ctags" utility, Includes mappings to (un)comment lines. [980106]

August 1995

Title: If you gotta use VI, use VIM

Media: "Linux Gazette", Issue 01-08

Author: John M. Fisk [email protected]

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue01to08/linux_gazette.aug.html#vim

"It actually tells you what mode you're in. It has an easily accessible on-line help function. It works quite well under X when teamed up with xterm." Also mentions that you can ":split" windows.

TODO

Linux-Mag.com September 1999

http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/tech_support_01.html

"There are other text editors you can investigate, but they are not for the faint of heart, as they are known for their arcane and hard to remember commands. Among these are vi, vim,elvis and their clones. If you intend to make a career out of being a Linux or UNIX sysadmin, I recommend at least having a passing familiarity with vi, as it is installed by default on every version of UNIX, even in its most pared-down state."

Linux-Mag.com August 1999

Author: Hal Moroff [email protected]

http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/newbies_02.html

You must edit a file to do this. The text editors that come with Linux are very good, but will take a fair amount of explaining. For now I recommend the vi (or vim) editor.

URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/press/
URL:         https://www.vim8.org/press/ (mirror)
Created:     Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 CEST 1998