Learning the vi and Vim Editors: Power and Agility Beyond Just Text Editing

Among the text editors being used in the programming community, perhaps a very powerful family is vi and its derivatives. With this up to date 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 every editor. Authors Arnold Robbins and Elbert Hannah cover the recent major releases of Vim, including 8.0 and 8.2.

If you are a programmer or computer analyst, or you work with browsers or command-line interfaces, the usage of Vim can speed up your work and make complex tasks easier. You’ll be able to examine multiwindow editing, global search and replacement, and power tools for programmers, and learn 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 be told which vi commands fit your specific needs
• Learn advanced vi tools that shift a few 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