See the online man pages. At unix shell prompt type 'man vim' and 'man gvim' .

Or inside the gvim session type :help to get the help page. See also Section 11, “ Vim Tutorial ” To see the settings type :set all or :set. To see list of options type :options. To see topics on set type :help set.

        VIM - main help file Move around: Use the cursor keys, or "h" to go 
        left, "j" to go down, "k" to go up, "l" to go right. ":1" takes you to 
        1st line of page ":n" takes you to nth line of page "<SHIFT>g" 
        takes you to bottom of page ":/someword/ will search for "someword" in 
        doc Close this window: Use ":q<Enter>". Jump to a subject: 
        Position the cursor on a tag between |bars| and hit CTRL-]. With the 
        mouse: ":set mouse=a" to enable the mouse (in xterm or GUI). 
        Double-click the left mouse button on a tag between |bars|. jump back: 
        Type CTRL-T or CTRL-O. Get specific help: It is possible to go 
        directly to whatever you want help on, by giving an argument to the 
        ":help" command |:help|. It is possible to further specify the 
        context: WHAT PREPEND EXAMPLE ~ Normal mode commands (nothing) :help x 
        Visual mode commands v_ :help v_u Insert mode commands i_ :help 
        i_<Esc> command-line commands : :help :quit command-line editing 
        c_ :help c_<Del> Vim command arguments - :help -r options ' 
        :help 'textwidth' list of documentation files: |howto.txt| how to do 
        the most common things |intro.txt| introduction to Vim |index.txt| 
        alphabetical index for each mode |autocmd.txt| automatically executing 
        commands on an event |change.txt| delete and replace text