Friday, April 8, 2011

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Tim Chase wrote:

> On 04/07/2011 08:05 PM, Tim Gray wrote:
>> I feel like to get the most out of it you need to a) put the
>> time in to learn it and b) put the time in *configuring* to
>> make it work for you.
>
> While I certainly agree with (a), I'm at the other end of the spectrum on (b).
>
> [1] http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/1999/unix_editor.html

Thanks, Tim. The note on this link recommends O'Reilly's book on Vi and when you go to the O'Reilly pages linked in it their are rave comments about the book.

Is this the book for a totally new *Vim* user of my background with the use I've indicated? Doesn't O'Reilly have a book directly on Vim?

Regards,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net


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