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"Drew has continued the wonderful work he has done with Vimcasts in this book, a must-read for anyone serious about Vim."
—Anders Janmyr, Developer Jayway
"Practical Vim continues to change what I believe a text editor can do."
—John P. Daigle, Developer ThoughtWorks, Inc.
"I’ve learned more about Vim by reading this book than I have from any other resource."
—Robert Evans, Software Engineer, Code Wranglers
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Drew Neil is an independent programmer, writer, and trainer. He runs workshops around the world, speaks regularly at conferences, and specializes in making educational screencasts. At vimcasts.org, he publishes articles and video tutorials about Vim.
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- Series: Pragmatic Programmers
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (October 8, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1934356980
- ISBN-13: 978-1934356982
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Free Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought
At the end of the day all text editors serve the following core purposes. They allow you to:
* generate text
* remove text
* navigate through text
* spot-edit text
for this Notepad, emacs, Textmate all suffice. But a *great* editor, in the hands of a master allows you to perform these tasks as efficiently as possible.
Lastly, *great* editors excel in one more criterion:
* it allows you to extend itself with complex, arbitrary collections of the above operations easily
Consider "generate text:" while one *could* type in a word character by character, a vim wizard notes that the line was entered previously and uses autocomplete-line to summon a long line of text back with two keystrokes (tip 115).
Consider "navigate through text:" again, one *could* navigate an editor by arrow keys or some key combination but Vim lets you move by word, WORD (Neil explains what a WORD is), sentence, or paragraph (tips 48-53). If you move by one character more than twice, you're probably missing something.
Consider "spot edit text:" If you need to add titles to several paragraphs and then paste them at the top of your document (say, copying chapter headers from the document and pasting them at the top to make a table of contents), one *could* make the title addition, copy header, scroll up, paste it in a table of contents, scroll back down to next header, rinse-wash-repeat OR, scroll through the document, store the titles and then hop to the top and unload the copies titles all at once, rapid-rapid fire (tips 60, 62).
It is thinking like this that makes watching a bad Vim user (or any other non-wizard editor) such a frustrating experience for Vim pros (which you will be after you grok this book).