Learning the vi and Vim Editors

Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah & Linda Lamb
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  • vi, like many of the utilities developed during the early years of Unix, has a reputation for being hard to navigate. Bram Moolenaar's enhanced clone, Vim ("vi Improved"), has gone a long way toward removing reasons for such impressions. Vim includes many...
     
  • Vi through the years has been the topic of many "geek debates." Maybe not quite as big as the "Windows - Mac arguments," but vi and its companion editor Emacs both have their fervent followings. I've been in the "Vi camp" for more years than I want to...
     
  • 'Learning the vi and Vim Editors' is the ultimate reference for using 'vi' out there on the market. Now in its 7th (yes SEVENTH) edition, this book has been around for 22 years and there is a reason. 450+ pages are spread over XX chapters: 01. Basics 02....
     
  • I read this with both joy and sadness. Joy because it's a great treatment of vi and its clones, but sadness because so few will appreciate it. Nowadays it's mostly programmers who understand the value of a text editor as opposed to a word processor. For...
     
  • This new edition goes above and beyond of what's currently available in the area of Vi/Vim tutorials. It is fascinating to watch how much time and typing a programmer can save every single day, once they've figured out how to use a tool like Vim...

 

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