If you are transitioning from windows, then in order of preference you will probably want to use, evim, gvim, vim. evim makes gvim behave like windows editors (note Ctrl+L gets you to vim Normal mode). If one just wants the windows key mappings from evim mode in gvim for e.g. you can use the following command: source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim. Other alternatives if you're transitioning from windows ar