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Practical Vim: Edit Text At The Speed Of Thought (2012)

by Drew Neil(Favorite Author)

4.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1934356980 (ISBN13: 9781934356982)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

The Pragmatic Bookshelf

review 1: If you do anything at all with computers, make sure you get really good at text editing. If you want to get really good at text editing, pick a really good text editor and get to know that editor really well. Vim is a really good text editor. I picked vim as my editor of choice and this book is invaluable in my journey to becoming a vim master.I already had some working knowledge of vim and was using it as my day to day programming evironment for some years. After reading this book I realised I knew only maybe 1% of the true power of vim. Now I maybe know 5%. But that doesn't matter. I browse this book once in a while for inspiration, learn some new tricks and add another percentage point to my skills.Aside: vim is not the only really good text editors. There are a lot. Th... moree point is, pick one and get good at it.
review 2: Lots of great info in this book, organized more helpfully than the other book I've read on Vim, Learning Vim (which was also a very useful book).Registers get a great treatment here, as do macros and general editing tips for speed and efficiency. Motions and text objects could've used a bit more coverage, but I still got practice with things I did infrequently that I will now use more often.I also wish the author had covered using Pathogen.vim, simply because of its utility, but there's only so much space. He does reference a number of other great plugins, including surround.vim. less

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