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Learning the vi Editor (6th Edition)
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Author: Arnold Robbins, Linda Lamb
List Price: $29.95
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ISBN: 1565924266
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (November, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 12,964
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Quite good -- if only there were more examples...
First, I unequivocally recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the vi editor used on UNIX and Linux systems. The book is well laid out and well written.There are, however, two things I think would make this good book even better: (1) step-by-step examples of some of the more complex vi techniques and (2) some on-line example files available from the O'Reilly Web site. On-line example files are employed to advantage by other O'Reilly books (O'Reilly's "sed & awk" comes immediately to mind). Providing some hands-on example files to work with would definitely help anyone using this book to learn the vi editor. Having said that, this book in its current form will teach you more than enough to use vi effectively. For those who are just starting to use vi to do real work, I'd also recommend acquiring the companion "vi Editor Pocket Reference."
Rating: 5 out of 5
You don't know the power of VI
This book is a great intro to vi for beginners and is an excellent desktop reference for people to keep handy. I keep it handy because I cannot always remember that obscure command that will rearrange my document with little effort.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The best VI reference I've ever used!
The only problem with this book is learning vi and remembering all the commands you can do with vi! VI is the BEST editor there is! *PERIOD* YEah that's right!...
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