Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and
more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you
master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text
editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's
core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks.
This beloved bestseller has been revised and updated to Vim 8 and
includes three brand-new tips and five fully revised tips.
A highly configurable, cross-platform text editor, Vim is a serious tool
for programmers, web developers, and sysadmins who want to raise their
game. No other text editor comes close to Vim for speed and efficiency;
it runs on almost every system imaginable and supports most coding and
markup languages.
Learn how to edit text the "Vim way" complete a series of repetitive
changes with The Dot Formula using one keystroke to strike the target,
followed by one keystroke to execute the change. Automate complex tasks
by recording your keystrokes as a macro. Discover the "very magic"
switch that makes Vim's regular expression syntax more like Perl's.
Build complex patterns by iterating on your search history. Search
inside multiple files, then run Vim's substitute command on the result
set for a project-wide search and replace. All without installing a
single plugin! Three new tips explain how to run multiple ex commands as
a batch, autocomplete sequences of words, and operate on a complete
search match.
Practical Vim, Second Edition will show you new ways to work with Vim
8 more efficiently, whether you're a beginner or an intermediate Vim
user. All this, without having to touch the mouse.
What You Need:
Vim version 8
