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Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition
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Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
July 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
492 pages
16h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 10. Major Vim Improvements over vi

Vim’s improvements over vi are myriad, ranging from multiple color syntax definitions to full-blown scripting. If vi is excellent (it is), Vim is amazing. In this chapter we discuss how Vim fills in many features that users have complained were missing from vi. Some of these include:

  • Built-in help

  • Startup and initialization options

  • New motion commands

  • Extended regular expressions

  • Extended undo

  • Customizing the executable

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