Product Description
Ready-to-use hacks with solutions for common situations encountered by users of the Vim editor
* Create, install, and use Vim scripts to extend Vim's functionality
* Personalize your work-area to fit your workflow
* Optimize your Vim editor to be faster and more responsive
* Packed with tips and tricks based on the author's practical experience
In Detail
Vim is one of the most powerful open-source editors used by programmers and system administrators around the world. While Vim itself is inherently a powerful editor, personalizing it to suit your needs can be a daunting task. However, it is possible to do so with the help of this book.
This book contains examples that cover everything from personalizing Vim according to the your work cycle to optimizations that will boost the your productivity. The main focus of this book is to make your life, as a Vim user, easier.
Each chapter deals with a different aspect, and provides recipes for easy-to-use hacks to customize and simplify your Vim experience. After an introduction covering the derivation of Vim and its relatives from the vi editor, the author explains basic changes that you can make to the appearance of the Vim editor. Further chapters cover improved navigation through files and buffers in Vim; speeding up your work with templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers; and formatting text and code, including using external formatting scripts. The final comprehensive chapter covers everything about using Vim scripts and scripting to extend functionality.
This book is written for Vim 7.2, the latest stable version. This latest version of Vim includes many new features like spell-checking, code completion, document tabs, current line and column highlighting, undo branches, and much more.
Getting the most out of the Vim editor
What you will learn from this book
* Gain a deep understanding of Vim to master the editor
* Personalize Vim to suit your needs
* Navigate through files faster while editing multiple files
* Boost your productivity by using templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers
* Improve the formatting of your text and code by mastering simple tricks
* Extend Vim with script
* Retain your Vim configuration across computers by storing an online copy
Approach
This book is a tutorial packed with ready-to-use hacks that give solutions for common problems faced by Vim users in their everyday life. Every chapter covers a set of recipes, each of which follows a systematic approach with a self-contained description of the task it covers, how to use it, and what you gain by using it. The minimum version of Vim required for each hack is clearly indicated.
Who this book is written for
If you are a Vim user who wants to get more out of this legendary text editor, this book is for you. It focuses on making life easier for intermediate to experienced Vim users.
0 有用 dbljs 2010-05-30 15:35:48
一般般,愧对书名里的hacking这个词,我原本想要读到点更多的东西
0 有用 stoneLee 2012-12-24 12:49:10
查缺补漏一下
0 有用 大米 2012-03-29 18:37:17
写写.vimrc吧
0 有用 lili 2011-08-04 22:47:36
比手册好多了,很实用
0 有用 stephansun 2013-02-03 20:22:11
对一般开发人员来说,看完第二章和第三章已经足够了。
0 有用 wuzhouhui 2017-11-10 07:43:47
以前用 vim 时不怎么看书, 有问题时都是在网上搜索. 这是我看过的唯一一本 vim 书籍, 感觉写得不错, 挺实用的. 抽空把它翻译成了中文版, 欢迎校对: https://github.com/wuzhouhui/hacking_vim
0 有用 stephansun 2013-02-03 20:22:11
对一般开发人员来说,看完第二章和第三章已经足够了。
0 有用 stoneLee 2012-12-24 12:49:10
查缺补漏一下
0 有用 大米 2012-03-29 18:37:17
写写.vimrc吧
0 有用 淘气 2011-11-27 22:19:10
作者是个Vim的资深用户,讲了不少好经验,既适合新手入门,又适合老手参考