1 .TH VIMTUTOR 1 "2001 April 2"
3 vimtutor \- the Vim tutor
6 .B vimtutor [-g] [language]
12 It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing
17 is useful for people that want to learn their first
21 The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the
22 GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is not found.
24 The optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like
26 If the [language] argument is missing, the language of the current locale will
28 If a tutor in this language is available, it will be used.
29 Otherwise the English version will be used.
32 is always started in Vi compatible mode.
35 /usr/local/lib/vim/tutor/tutor[.language]
40 /usr/local/lib/vim/tutor/tutor.vim
41 The Vim script used to copy the
47 was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware,
48 Colorado School of Mines using ideas supplied by Charles Smith,
49 Colorado State University.
50 E-mail: bware@mines.colorado.edu.
55 For the names of the translators see the tutor files.