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Learning the VI and VIM Editors: Power and Agility Beyond Just Text Editing
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by Arnold Robbins; Elbert Hannah

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Among the text editors being used in the programming community, perhaps the most important family is vi and its derivatives. With this updated 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 each editor. Authors Arnold Robbins and Elbert Hannah cover the latest major releases of Vim, including 8.0 and 8.2.

If you're a programmer or computer analyst, or you work with browsers or command-line interfaces, using Vim can speed up your work and make complex tasks easier. You'll examine multiwindow editing, global search and replacement, and power tools for programmers, and learn how 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 learn which vi commands fit your specific needs
  • Learn advanced vi tools that shift most of the editing burden to the computer
  • Explore Vim tools that provide major improvements over vi
  • Examine Vim 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 using it as an IDE

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  • Title Learning the VI and VIM Editors: Power and Agility Beyond Just Text Editing
  • Author Arnold Robbins; Elbert Hannah
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 545
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher O'Reilly Media
  • Publication date 2021-12-28
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9781492078807 / 1492078808
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.19 x 7 x 1.11 in (23.34 x 17.78 x 2.82 cm)
  • Category Computers - Operating Systems
  • Library of Congress subjects Text editors (Computer programs), AEditeurs de texte (Logiciels)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022304365
  • Dewey Decimal Code 005.13

About the author

Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has been working with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. His experience also includes multiple commercial Unix systems, from Sun, IBM, HP and DEC. He has been working with GNU/Linux systems since 1996.Arnold has also been a heavy awk user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of awk. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for awk. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. O'Reilly has been keeping him busy: He is author and/or coauthor of the bestselling titles: Unix In A Nutshell, Effective awk Programming, sed & awk, Classic Shell Scripting, and several pocket references.

Elbert Hannah specializes in integrating technologies. His first job found him writing a full-screen editor in assembler (Intel 8086) in 1983. He implemented many vi-like features like motion-by-object (word, paragraph, etc.). Elbert discovered Unix working for the phone company and built a career integrating disparate systems. He wrote an e-mail platform for IBM's mainframe ISPF environment by linking ISPF panels to IBM JCL jobs linked to an AT&T connected RJE reader. Today, Elbert works in the Finance industry, again, integrating technologies. Underlying all of his accomplishments was the reliance on the power and agility of the vi text-editing framework.

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