Especially useful is the FAQ: The FAQ answers a lot of basic and advanced questions about how to perform tasks in Vim. When you have questions regarding Vim, make sure to search through the FAQ. The FAQ is also provided as a plugin (script#3298), so it can simply be used from within Vim. To use it, download the vimball archive from the vim.org page, open the file with Vim and source it: :so % This will install the helpfile in your Vim Runtime path and generate the helptags from the provided documentation. After restarting, access the FAQ by entering: :h vim-faq