Arnold Robbins

Linda Lamb

Elbert Hannah

A guide to vi and Vim covers the basics of text-editing along with information on such topics as macros, buffers, Unix commands, scripts, gvim, and vi clones.

Learning the Vi and Vim Editors

vi and its derivatives are perhaps the most important family of text editors in the programming community. With this updated guide, Unix and Linux users will learn text editing basics for both vi and Vim ("vi improved") before moving onto advanced editing tools for each editor. Authors Elbert Hannah and Arnold Robbins cover the latest major releases of Vim, including 8.0 and 8.2. Whether you're a programmer or computer analyst or you work with browsers or command-line interfaces, you'll examine multi-window editing, global search and replacement, power tools for programmers, and how to write interactive macros and scripts to extend the editor-all in the easy-to-follow style that's made this book a classic. Go beyond the basics to learn which vi commands fit your specific needs Learn advanced vi tools that shift some of the editing burden to the computer Explore Vim tools that provide major improvements over vi Examine Vim's multi-window editing feature, a significant upgrade over vi Use Vim scripts to customize and tailor Vim to suit your needs Look at Vim in modern GUI environments with Graphical Vim (gvim)

Power and Agility Beyond Just Text Editing

Among the text editors being used in the programming community, perhaps the most important family is vi and its derivatives. With this updated edition, Unix and Linux users will learn text editing basics for both vi and Vim ("vi improved") before moving on to advanced editing tools for each editor. Authors Arnold Robbins and Elbert Hannah cover the latest major releases of Vim, including 8.0 and 8.2. If you're a programmer or computer analyst, or you work with browsers or command-line interfaces, using Vim can speed up your work and make complex tasks easier. You'll examine multiwindow editing, global search and replacement, and power tools for programmers, and learn how to write interactive macros and scripts to extend the editor--all in the easy-to-follow style that's made this book a classic. Go beyond the basics to learn which vi commands fit your specific needs Learn advanced vi tools that shift most of the editing burden to the computer Explore Vim tools that provide major improvements over vi Examine Vimâ??s multiwindow editing feature, a significant upgrade over vi Use Vim scripts to customize and tailor Vim to your needs Look at Vim in modern GUI environments with Graphical Vim (gvim) See Vim in the broader programming milieu, including usingit as an IDE

Learning the vi and Vim Editors

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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