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Learning vi and vim Editors 7th Edition
There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more
fanatical about than their text editor. Editors are the
subject of adoration and worship, or of scorn and ridicule,
depending upon whether the topic of discussion is your
editor or someone else's.
vi has been the standard editor for close to 30 years.
Popular
on Unix and Linux, it has a growing following on
Windows systems, too. Most experienced system administrators
cite vi as their tool of choice. And since 1986, this book
has been the guide for vi.
However, Unix systems are not what they were 30 years ago,
and neither is this book. While retaining all the valuable
features of previous editions, the 7th edition of Learning
the vi and vim Editors has been expanded to include detailed
information on vim, the leading vi clone. vim is the default
version of vi on most Linux systems and on Mac OS X, and is
available for many other operating systems too.
With this guide, you learn text editing basics and advanced
tools for both editors, such as multi-window editing, how to
write both interactive macros and scripts to extend the
editor, and power tools for programmers -- all in the
easy-to-follow style that has made this book a classic.
Learning the vi and vim Editors includes:
A complete introduction to text editing with vi:
How to move around vi in a hurry
Beyond the basics, such as using buffers
vi's global search and replacement
Advanced editing, including customizing vi and executing
Unix commands
How to make full use of vim:
Extended text objects and more powerful regular expressions
Multi-window editing and powerful vim scripts
How to make full use of the GUI version of vim, called gvim
vim's enhancements for programmers, such as syntax
highlighting, folding and extended tags
Coverage of three other popular vi clones -- nvi, elvis, and
vile -- is also included. You'll find several valuable
appendixes, including an alphabetical quick reference to
both vi and ex mode commands for regular vi and for vim,
plus an updated appendix on vi and the Internet.
Learning either vi or vim is required knowledge if you use
Linux or Unix, and in either case, reading this book is
essential. After reading this book, the choice of editor
will be obvious for you too.
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