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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