The Vim Community

Some people say that vi users are a rabid pack of fanatical lunatics.We prefer to think of ourselves as community of users who have found apiece of software that perfectly meets our needs. We like to help ourfellow users whenever we can.

Questions and Answers

A very active place these days to get help from others is you don't know how todo something isStackexchange.It's a bit like stackoverflow but for users.

Mailing Lists

There are several "official" mailing lists for Vim. Pleasenote that to post on these lists,you must be amember (except for vim-announce, you cannot post there).To subscribe, send an empty message to[list-name]-subscribe@vim.org.

Quoting Leonid Mamtchenkov: "Until now I thought only that the Vim mailing listwas very informative and fast-responding. Now I also think that it is one ofthe kindest I've came across. :) Thumbs up!"

Plenty of other groups and mailing lists exist, and are described morefully ontheir own page.

IRC Channels

If mailing lists don't provide the quick reply and razor wit you need,you can look for Vim users on IRC at these networks:

USENET Newsgroups

Vim is discussed on USENET -- what isn't? You can find Vim discussionon comp.editors on your local NNTP server. Or look at theGoogle archive.

Web Pages

Vim.org might be the official vim web page, but it's hardly the onlyone. There are plenty of them, listed both inour registry and onthe Vim webring.

Wiki

Another wiki is at wikibooks:learning the vi editor, there is a section specifically for Vim, the rest is regular Vi.

The tips have been moved to theVim Tips wiki.