*vi-help.txt*	For Vim version 7.1.  Last change: 2008 Mar 03

			VIM - minimal  help file

  (NOTE: This is a minimal help file and many tags won't work. Use 'vim' or

   'gvim' to read the complete help docs.)

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      Move around:  Use the cursor keys, or "h" to go left,	       h   l

		    "j" to go down, "k" to go up, "l" to go right.	 j

Close this window:  Use ":q<Enter>".

   Get out of Vim:  Use ":qa!<Enter>" (careful, all changes are lost!).

Jump to a subject:  Position the cursor on a tag between |bars| and hit CTRL-].

	Jump back:  Type CTRL-T or CTRL-O (repeat to go further back).

Get specific help:  It is possible to go directly to whatever you want help

		    on, by giving an argument to the ":help" command |:help|.

		    It is possible to further specify the context:

							*vi-help-context*

			  WHAT			PREPEND    EXAMPLE	~

		      Normal mode command      (nothing)   :help x

		      Insert mode command	  i_	   :help i_<Esc>

		      Command-line command	  :	   :help :quit

		      Command-line editing	  c_	   :help c_

		      Vim command argument	  -	   :help -r

		      Option			  '	   :help 'textwidth'

  Search for help:  Type ":help word", then hit CTRL-D to see matching

		    help entries for "word".

VIM stands for Vi IMproved.  Most of VIM was made by Bram Moolenaar, but only

through the help of many others.  See |vi-credits|.

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3. Credits                              *vi-credits* *vi-author* *vi-Bram* *vi-Moolenaar*

Most of Vim was written by Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>.

Parts of the documentation come from several Vi manuals, written by:

        W.N. Joy

        Alan P.W. Hewett

        Mark Horton

The Vim editor is based on Stevie and includes (ideas from) other software,

worked on by the people mentioned here.  Other people helped by sending me

patches, suggestions and giving feedback about what is good and bad in Vim.

Vim would never have become what it is now, without the help of these people!

        Ron Aaron               Win32 GUI changes

        Zoltan Arpadffy         work on VMS port

        Tony Andrews            Stevie

        Gert van Antwerpen      changes for DJGPP on MS-DOS

        Berkeley DB(3)          ideas for swap file implementation

        Keith Bostic            Nvi

        Walter Briscoe          Makefile updates, various patches

        Ralf Brown              SPAWNO library for MS-DOS

        Robert Colon            many useful remarks

        Marcin Dalecki          GTK+ GUI port, toolbar icons, gettext()

        Kayhan Demirel          sent me news in Uganda

        Chris & John Downey     xvi (ideas for multi-windows version)

        Henk Elbers             first VMS port

        Daniel Elstner          GTK+ 2 port

        Eric Fischer            Mac port, 'cindent', and other improvements

        Benji Fisher            Answering lots of user questions

        Bill Foster             Athena GUI port

        Loic Grenie             xvim (ideas for multi windows version)

        Sven Guckes             Vim promotor and previous WWW page maintainer

        Darren Hiebert          Exuberant ctags

        Jason Hildebrand        GTK+ 2 port

        Bruce Hunsaker          improvements for VMS port

        Andy Kahn               Cscope support, GTK+ GUI port

        Oezguer Kesim           Maintainer of Vim Mailing Lists

        Axel Kielhorn           work on the Macintosh port

        Steve Kirkendall        Elvis

        Roger Knobbe            original port to Windows NT

        Sergey Laskavy          Vim's help from Moscow

        Felix von Leitner       Maintainer of Vim Mailing Lists

        David Leonard           Port of Python extensions to Unix

        Avner Lottem            Edit in right-to-left windows

        Flemming Madsen         X11 client-server, various features and patches

        MicroSoft               Gave me a copy of DevStudio to compile Vim with

        Paul Moore              Python interface extensions, many patches

        Katsuhito Nagano        Work on multi-byte versions

        Sung-Hyun Nam           Work on multi-byte versions

        Vince Negri             Win32 GUI and generic console enhancements

        Steve Oualline          Author of the first Vim book |frombook|

        George V. Reilly        Win32 port, Win32 GUI start-off

        Stephen Riehm           bug collector

        Stefan Roemer           various patches and help to users

        Ralf Schandl            IBM OS/390 port

        Olaf Seibert            DICE and BeBox version, regexp improvements

        Mortaza Shiran          Farsi patches

        Peter da Silva          termlib

        Paul Slootman           OS/2 port

        Henry Spencer           regular expressions

        Dany St-Amant           Macintosh port

        Tim Thompson            Stevie

        G. R. (Fred) Walter     Stevie

        Sven Verdoolaege        Perl interface

        Robert Webb             Command-line completion, GUI versions, and

                                lots of patches

        Ingo Wilken             Tcl interface

        Mike Williams           PostScript printing

        Juergen Weigert         Lattice version, AUX improvements, UNIX and

                                MS-DOS ports, autoconf

        Stefan 'Sec' Zehl       Maintainer of vim.org

I wish to thank all the people that sent me bug reports and suggestions.  The

list is too long to mention them all here.  Vim would not be the same without

the ideas from all these people: They keep Vim alive!

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						*vi-doc-file-list* *V_ct*

BASIC:

|copying|	About copyrights

|iccf|		Helping poor children in Uganda

|sponsor|	Sponsor Vim development, become a registered Vim user

|www|		Vim on the World Wide Web

|bugs|		Where to send bug reports

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Now that you've jumped here with CTRL-] or a double mouse click, you can use

CTRL-T, CTRL-O, g<RightMouse>, or <C-RightMouse> to go back to where you were.

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