| With this guide, you learn text editing basics & advanced tools for both editors, such as multi-window editing, how to write both interactive macros & 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 appendixes, including an alphabetical quick reference to both vi & 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. | |
