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Vi iMproved (VIM)
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Author: Steve Oualline
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0735710015
Publisher: SAMS (11 April, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 88,727
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
we need a competing book that is better organized
I have used this book in a Windows environment; a few years of on-again-off again coding. I agree with the reviewer who found the book very disorganized. I am ordering the old edition of the O'Reilly book on the vi editor (a very small book, better than the newest edition and less than 5 bucks) because I found it more helpful than this book (!!).I will try to go through it (yet) again, because I like vim, and recognize its power. I just downloaded TextPad and tried it for the first time in probably 4 years, and I am running back to vim after less than an hour of TextPad (the "dd" command of vim to delete a line has become essential to me :) ). So, buy the book, but use the web and the excellent listserv to understand vim.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Indispensable!!
Vim is an exceedingly powerful, but somewhat esoteric text editor. You can make it do almost *anything*, provided you know how. I found this book to be indispensable in doing that, since it presents everything in an organized way. This book does not replace a good google search or the online documentation. Instead its a great way to learn what Vim can do, and how to get about it. A must for any programmer's bookshelf.
Vi rules!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Opens the Door To Free Editor For Life On Any Platform
This book was the ticket to admission to the Linux world. To use Linux, one must immediately be competent with a text editor that runs on Linux. For me, a Windows developer who had used vi a decade or so ago on an HP-UX system but had successfully forgotten everything, this book allowed me to regain my vi-ish skills on Windows during my day job so I could productively goof around on Linux at night.Other reviewers noted errors. To me, there were no big, hairy errors. This book yielded a positive learning experience. I shudder to think where I would be now without it. I had considered the purchase of a $... Linux version of a commercial editor that I use on Windows, but decided to give this book a try before I made the big investment. This proved to be a good decision, because now I eschew the expensive commercial editor and use vim as my text editor on Windows and Linux. My only complaint with this situation is not with the book, but with me. Now, my fingers 'think' in vim, and those fingers 'think' much faster that my brain thinks. This works quite well when in vim, but not so well elsewhere...
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