Practical Vim

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Bram Moolenaar for creating Vim and to all those who have contributed to its development. It’s a timeless piece of software, and I look forward to growing with it.

Thanks to everyone at the Pragmatic Bookshelf for working together to make this book the best that it could be. Special thanks to Kay Keppler, my developmental editor, for coaching me as a writer and for helping to shape this book, despite its growing pains and my occasional tantrums. I’d also like to thank David Kelly for his adept handling of my unusual formatting requests.

Practical Vim didn’t start out as a recipe book, but Susannah Pfalzer recognized that it would work best in this format. It was painful to have to rewrite so much, but in doing so ...