Learning the vi and Vim Editors

Unix Text Processing

Arnold Robbins, Linda Lamb, Elbert Hannah

496 pages, parution le 01/07/2008 (7^eme édition)

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Résumé

There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more fanatical about than their text editor. Editors are the subject of adoration and worship, or of scorn and ridicule, depending upon whether the topic of discussion is your editor or someone else's.

vi has been the standard editor for close to 30 years. Popular on Unix and Linux, it has a growing following on Windows systems, too. Most experienced system administrators cite vi as their tool of choice. And since 1986, this book has been the guide for vi.

However, Unix systems are not what they were 30 years ago, and neither is this book. While retaining all the valuable features of previous editions, the 7th edition of Learning the vi and vim Editors has been expanded to include detailed information on vim, the leading vi clone. vim is the default version of vi on most Linux systems and on Mac OS X, and is available for many other operating systems too.

With this guide, you learn text editing basics and advanced tools for both editors, such as multi-window editing, how to write both interactive macros and scripts to extend the editor, and power tools for programmers -- all in the easy-to-follow style that has made this book a classic.

Learning the vi and vim Editors includes:

A complete introduction to text editing with vi:

How to move around vi in a hurry
Beyond the basics, such as using buffers
vi's global search and replacement
Advanced editing, including customizing vi and executing Unix commands

How to make full use of vim:

Extended text objects and more powerful regular expressions
Multi-window editing and powerful vim scripts
How to make full use of the GUI version of vim, called gvim
vim's enhancements for programmers, such as syntax highlighting, folding and extended tags

Coverage of three other popular vi clones - nvi, elvis, and vile -- is also included. You'll find several valuable appendixes, including an alphabetical quick reference to both vi and ex mode commands for regular vi and for vim, plus an updated appendix on vi and the Internet.

Learning either vi or vim is required knowledge if you use Linux or Unix, and in either case, reading this book is essential. After reading this book, the choice of editor will be obvious for you too.

L'auteur - Arnold Robbins

Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He is also a happy husband, the father of four very cute children, and an amateur Talmudist (Babylonian and Jerusalem). Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in Israel. Arnold has been working with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. He has 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.

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Sommaire

The vi Text Editor
Simple Editing
Moving Around in a Hurry
Beyond the Basics
Introducing the ex Editor
Global Replacement
Advanced Editing
Introducing to the vi Clones
Vim (vi Improved): An Introduction
Major Vim Improvements over vi
Multiple Windows in Vim
Vim Scripts
Graphical Vim (gvim)
Vim Enhancements for Programmers
Other Cool Stuff in Vim
nvi: New vi
Elvis
vile: vi Like Emacs
The vi, ex and Vim Editor
Setting Options
Problem Checklists
vi and the Internet

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Arnold Robbins, Linda Lamb, Elbert Hannah
Parution	01/07/2008
Édition	7^eme édition
Nb. de pages	496
Format	18 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1710g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596529833
ISBN13	978-0-596-52983-3