| Bram Moolenaar | badce65 | 2008-06-25 00:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Tutor is a "hands on" tutorial for new users of the Vim editor. |
| Bram Moolenaar | 071d427 | 2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| Bram Moolenaar | badce65 | 2008-06-25 00:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | Most new users can get through it in less than one hour. The result |
| 4 | is that you can do a simple editing task using the Vim editor. |
| Bram Moolenaar | 071d427 | 2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Bram Moolenaar | badce65 | 2008-06-25 00:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | Tutor is a file that contains the tutorial lessons. You can simply |
| RestorerZ | 6fa304f | 2024-12-02 20:19:52 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | execute "vim tutor1" and then follow the instructions in the lessons. |
| Bram Moolenaar | badce65 | 2008-06-25 00:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | The lessons tell you to modify the file, so DON'T DO THIS ON YOUR |
| 9 | ORIGINAL COPY. |
| Bram Moolenaar | 071d427 | 2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| RestorerZ | 6fa304f | 2024-12-02 20:19:52 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | On UNIX-like systems you can also use the "vimtutor" program. |
| 12 | It will make a scratch copy of the tutor first. |
| Bram Moolenaar | 071d427 | 2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
| Bram Moolenaar | badce65 | 2008-06-25 00:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | I have considered adding more advanced lessons but have not found the |
| 15 | time. Please let me know how you like it and send any improvements you |
| 16 | make. |
| Bram Moolenaar | 071d427 | 2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
| Bram Moolenaar | badce65 | 2008-06-25 00:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | Bob Ware, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co 80401, USA |
| 19 | (303) 273-3987 |
| 20 | bware@mines.colorado.edu bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu bware@mines.bitnet |
| Bram Moolenaar | 071d427 | 2004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| RestorerZ | 6fa304f | 2024-12-02 20:19:52 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | All of the above regarding chapter one of the tutorial also applies to chapter |
| 23 | two of the tutorial. Except that you must use the command “vim tutor2” to open |
| 24 | chapter two. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | The chapter two of the tutorial was written by Paul D. Parker. |
| Bram Moolenaar | a9604e6 | 2018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | |
| 28 | Translation |
| 29 | ----------- |
| Damien Lejay | 8d9d2b2 | 2025-06-22 19:39:04 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | The files tutor1.xx for chapter one and tutor2.xx chapter two of the tutorial |
| 31 | are translated files (where xx is the language code). |
| 32 | The encoding of tutor1.xx and tutor2.xx must be utf-8. |
| Bram Moolenaar | a9604e6 | 2018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | |
| 34 | [This file was modified for Vim by Bram Moolenaar et al.] |