Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

On Vim Versions

All examples in Practical Vim were tested on the latest version of Vim, which was 8.0 at the time of writing. That said, version 7.3 is modern enough to include most of functionality covered in this book, with a couple of exceptions. The gn command, covered in Tip 84, was introduced in Vim 7.4.110. And the :cfdo command, covered in Tip 97, became available in Vim 7.4.858. I’d encourage you to install an up-to-date version of Vim if you can, so that you can benefit from these improvements.

What’s New in Vim 8

Version 8.0 of Vim was released in September 2016. In earlier versions, Vim would run in vi-compatible mode by default, but in version 8 you have to explicitly opt-in to running in vi-compatible mode. In theory this could ...