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We prefer to think of ourselves as community of users who have found a piece of software that perfectly meets our needs. We like to help our fellow users whenever we can. </p> <h1>Questions and Answers</h1> <p> A very active place these days to get help from others is you don't know how to do something is <a href="https://vi.stackexchange.com">Stackexchange</a>. It's a bit like stackoverflow but for users. </p> <h1>Mailing Lists</h1> <p> There are several "official" mailing lists for Vim. Please note that to post on these lists, <strong>you must be a member</strong> (except for vim-announce, you cannot post there). To subscribe, send an empty message to [list-name]-subscribe@vim.org. </p> <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0"> <tr class='tableheader'> <th>address</th> <th>description</th> </tr> <tr class='rowodd'> <td><a href="maillist.php#announce">vim-announce@vim.org</a></td> <td>Announcements only: new releases and important patches</td> </tr> <tr class='roweven'> <td><a href="maillist.php#vim">vim@vim.org</a></td> <td>Help on vim and vim usage</td> </tr> <tr class='rowodd'> <td><a href="maillist.php#vim-dev">vim-dev@vim.org</a></td> <td>Discussion on current vim development</td> </tr> <tr class='roweven'> <td><a href="maillist.php#vim-mac">vim-mac@vim.org</a></td> <td>Vim use and development discussion specific to mac</td> </tr> <tr class='rowodd'> <td><a href="maillist.php#vim-security">vim-security@googlegroups.com</a></td> <td>Vim internal, non-public list for discussing potential security issues</td> </tr> </table> <p> Quoting Leonid Mamtchenkov: "Until now I thought only that the Vim mailing list was very informative and fast-responding. Now I also think that it is one of the kindest I've came across. :) Thumbs up!" </p> <p> Plenty of other groups and mailing lists exist, and are described more fully on <a href='maillist.php'>their own page</a>. </p> <h1>IRC Channels</h1> <p> 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: </p> <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0"> <tr class='tableheader'> <th>network</th> <th>common server</th> <th>channel</th> <th>comment</th> </tr> <tr class='rowodd'> <td>freenode</td> <td>irc.freenode.net</td> <td>#vim</td> <td>very active; <a href='https://vi-improved.org/'>web page</a></td> </tr> <tr class='roweven'> <td>IRCnet</td> <td> </td> <td>#vim</td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>USENET Newsgroups</h1> <p> Vim is discussed on USENET -- what isn't? You can find Vim discussion on comp.editors on your local NNTP server. Or look at the <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/comp.editors">Google archive</a>. </p> <h1>Web Pages</h1> <p> Vim.org might be the official vim web page, but it's hardly the only one. There are plenty of them, listed both in <a href='web.php'>our registry</a> and on <a href='http://u.webring.com/hub?ring=vim'>the Vim webring</a>. </p> <h1>Wiki</h1> <p> Another wiki is at wikibooks: <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor">learning the vi editor</a>, there is a section specifically for Vim, the rest is regular Vi. </p> <p> The tips have been moved to the <a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki">Vim Tips wiki</a>. </p> <!-- finish off the framework --> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td class="darkbg"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""><br></td> <td class="sidebar"> <table width="128" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td class="sidebar"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3005259998294962"; /* 120x600, created 7/25/08 */ google_ad_slot = "7276811434"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="sidebar" align='center' style="padding-top: 16px"> Help Uganda </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="sidebar" align='center'> <br> <a href="https://iccf-holland.org/vim_books.html"><img src="/images/regexp.jpg" alt="Buy a book, help Uganda, learn Vim"></a> <br> <a href="http://iccf-holland.org/click1.html">Buy at Amazon</a> </td> </tr> <!-- INCLUDE THE RIGHT SIDE SPONSOR LINKS if present --> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- END OF THE PAGE BODY: BETWEEN HEADER AND FOOTER --> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bordercolor="red"> <tr><td colspan="4"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="5" alt=""></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" height="2" width="1" alt=""></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4"><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="5" alt=""></td></tr> <tr> <td><img src="/images/spacer.gif" width="5" height="1" alt=""></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><small> If you have questions or remarks about this site, visit the <a href="http://vimonline.sf.net">vimonline development</a> pages. 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