If you want to this for the whole document, then the parskip package is probably the best option. As Joseph Wright says, the question Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation? deals with this well.
If it is just for some individual lines where you want the extra space then there are other options. You can use one of \smallskip, \medskip or \bigskip or their break equivalents \smallbreak etc. Or you can load the setspace package that provides a double space environment.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
\paragraph*{Normal}
This is for people who love VIM and for people who hate VIM.
Some of you may be wondering what VIM is\dots
Here you go\dots
\paragraph*{medskips}
This is for people who love VIM and for people who hate VIM.
\medskip
Some of you may be wondering what VIM is\dots
\medskip
Here you go\dots
\begin{doublespace}
\paragraph*{Double space}
This is for people who love VIM and for people who hate VIM.
Some of you may be wondering what VIM is\dots
Here you go\dots
\end{doublespace}
\end{document}
I you wish to remove the indentation at the beginning of a paragraphs, then you can issue \noindent on each occaision, or \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} globally or e.g. inside the doublespace environment.
Should wish to specify the vertical gaps in sizes other than those provided by the skip commands, then latex has the \vspace command used as \vspace{2cm}.
Here is an illustration of both points:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
\noindent
This is for people who love VIM and for people who hate VIM.
\medskip\noindent
Some of you may be wondering what VIM is\dots
\vspace{2cm}\noindent
Here you go\dots
\vspace{2cm}
\begin{doublespace}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
This is for people who love VIM and for people who hate VIM.
Some of you may be wondering what VIM is\dots
Here you go\dots
\end{doublespace}
\end{document}
If you are using the one of the koma classes or memoir, then they include other commands for this type of situation.
tabulardefine\\in a special way, so that's what should be used in there. – Stephan Lehmke Feb 05 '13 at 09:28\nis not a line break at all for (La)TeX: the nearest equivalent would be\linebreak, but as @StephanLehmke comments you normally should not be using it. – Joseph Wright Feb 05 '13 at 09:39\nis only applicable intabularenvironment. – ATOzTOA Feb 05 '13 at 11:01\paragraph. Is there anyway to create a paragraph without a title? – ATOzTOA Feb 05 '13 at 11:51\paragraphis a sectioning command, like\section, but just happens by default not to alter the style of the text used as its argument. A paragraph is just a series of lines divided by a blank line (or explicitly ended using\par). – Joseph Wright Feb 05 '13 at 11:56\paragraphit makes the first character big, can I avoid this? – ATOzTOA Feb 05 '13 at 12:01\paragraphis a sectioning command and does not 'create a paragraph'. It's used in the form\paragraph{title}and comes 'below'\subsubsection. You almost certainly do not want\paragraph. – Joseph Wright Feb 05 '13 at 12:04\usepackage{parskip}, as in the question Joseph linked to? – Torbjørn T. Feb 05 '13 at 12:10\nis not defined at all in LaTeX it isn't applicable totabularor anything else. If you do not get an error message you must be defining it locally. – David Carlisle Feb 05 '13 at 12:22