Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 8th Edition

About the Authors

Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He is also a happy husband, the father of four wonderful children, and an amateur Talmudist (Babylonian and Jerusalem). Since late 1997, he and his family have been living 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. His experience also includes multiple commercial Unix systems, from Sun, IBM, HP, and DEC. He has been working with GNU/Linux systems since 1996.

Arnold has also 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 the longtime maintainer of gawk and its documentation.

In previous incarnations he has been a systems administrator and a teacher of Unix and networking continuing education classes. He has also had more than one poor experience with startup software companies, which he prefers not to think about anymore.

In Israel, he worked for several years writing high-end Command and Control–related software at a leading Israeli software company. He then spent a long time working as a software engineer at Intel and later at McAfee. These days he works at a smaller company that provides network security monitoring for the manufacturing and building management industries. His personal website may be found at http://www.skeeve.com. ...