October 2012
346 pages
7h 40m
English
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Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Foreword |
| Read Me |
| How This Book Is Structured |
| A Note on the Examples |
| Learn to Touch Type, Then Learn Vim |
| Read the Forgotten Manual |
| Get to Know Vim’s Built-in Documentation |
| Notation for Simulating Vim on the Page |
| Downloading the Examples |
| Use Vim’s Factory Settings |
| On the Role of Vim Script |
| On Vim Versions |
| 1. | The Vim Way |
| Tip 1. Meet the Dot Command |
| Tip 2. Don’t Repeat Yourself |
| Tip 3. Take One Step Back, Then Three Forward |
| Tip 4. Act, Repeat, Reverse |
| Tip 5. Find and Replace by Hand |
| Tip 6. Meet the Dot Formula |
| 2. | Normal Mode |
| Tip 7. Pause with Your Brush Off the Page |
| Tip 8. Chunk Your Undos |
| Tip 9. Compose Repeatable Changes |
| Tip 10. Use Counts to Do Simple Arithmetic |
| Tip 11. Don’t Count If You Can Repeat |
| Tip 12. Combine and ... |
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