Practical Vim

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

This book is a practical introduction to VIM. It contains an introduction to Vim and help with the different modes and how to set it up properly.

A nice book when I read it, can recommend for people a bit experienced in VIM.

Can you spot the grammatical error? It’s surprisingly hard to see because of a trick that our mind plays on us, but it should pop out with emphasis: “Paris in the the springtime.” When a line break separates two occurrences of the same word, our brain tends to ignore the duplicate. The effect is called a lexical illusion.
The substitute command allows us to find and replace one chunk of text with another. The command’s syntax looks like this: :[range]s[ubstitute]/{pattern}/{string}/[flags]
On the Etymology of Grep Consider this abbreviated form of the :global command: => :g/re/p re stands for regular expression, and p is short for :print, which is the default [cmd]. If we ignore the / symbols, we find the word “grep.”
“Do one thing, and do it well” is a principle of Unix philosophy. Vim provides wrapper commands that make it easy to call external programs such as make or grep.