vim documentation

This is from the creaters:

The VimDoc project at http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net (or vimdoc.sf.net for short) maintains a hyper-linked version of the help files that are integrated into the current version of the software. Most likely you'll want to go directly to he HTML version.

An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi by Bill Joy, the creater of VI. This is the best page to start with if you're new to the business. Probably after reading this one only needs to read VIM help, which is what I did. I started using VI in 2001 or so.

Seven habits of effective text editing by Bram Moolenaar, the main author of VIM.