Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. Its available on almost every OS--if you master the techniques in this book youll never need another text editor. Practical Vim shows you 120 vim recipes so you can quickly learn the editors core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. Vim like its classic ancestor vi is a serious tool for programmers web developers and sysadmins. 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. Run the same command on a selection of lines or a set of files. Discover the "very magic" switch which makes Vims regular expression syntax more like Perls. Build complex patterns by iterating on your search history. Search inside multiple files then run Vims substitute command on the result set for a project-wide search and replace. All without installing a single plugin! Youll learn how to navigate text documents as fast as the eye moves--with only a few keystrokes. Jump from a method call to its definition with a single command. Use Vims jumplist so that you can always follow the breadcrumb trail back to the file you were working on before. Discover a multilingual spell-checker that does what its told. Practical Vim will show you new ways to work with Vim more efficiently whether youre a beginner or an intermediate Vim user. All this without having to touch the mouse. What You Need: Vim version 7