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This looks nice but I am looking for advanced tutorial. For instance, I just randomly found that pressing N% in normal mode will take you to the Nth percentage line of a file. That you can run a macro on multiple files with :argdo normal@mw command. Where can I find such advanced stuff?

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I learned a lot from playing at https://vimgolf.com and looking at other people's solutions.

In the reference documentation

    :h index

https://vimhelp.org/index.txt.html#index.txt

In the vim built-in manual

Yes the vim documentation is damn good. Many plugin authors continue the tradition well too!

The help text is hyperlinked - If you are over a link (displayed in some non-white color by default, there's a couple types: blue and yellow are common) and press CTRL-] it will jump to the docs for that item. CTRL-T will return to the previous location (where you jumped from). This help text uses the ctags support underneath, so many other things hook into it too - useful set of keys to know overall :D.

Drew Neil’s website [1] is great and so are his books, particularly Practical Vim.

[1]: http://vimcasts.org/

Vimways [1] is technically excellent and very well-written.

[1]: https://vimways.org

Also nice is :N that takes you the Nth line. Somehow it is more natural for me than the NG as I am so used to opening the command prompt and then start thinking about what I am bout to do. Also remember search is generally the quickest way to move to another line, and at the right spot!

The best thing you can do is reading this: https://vimhelp.org/usr_toc.txt.html :)

The vim-adventures game introduces a surprising number of advanced concepts I would say. I'm currently on level 12 which is about text objects, for instance.

Check out 'Practical Vim' by Drew Neil, it's great.

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