Practical Vim

By Drew Neil,

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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…


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1 author picked Practical Vim as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In 2001, when I was young and everything was possible I asked my CTO what Interactive Development Environment (IDE) I should use.

'vim' was the response, so I went away and learned it. To this day, I use vim by default for almost all my programming needs. The learning curve is very steep, but the rewards are great, not least because it's hard to find a platform that cannot run it.

This book reinforces the learning you can do elsewhere through walkthroughs and tips and lets you know what's possible, so that when you really need to do things like…

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