Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient
developer. It's available on almost every OS and if you master the techniques in this book
you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips you'll quickly learn the
editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. This beloved
bestseller has been revised and updated to Vim 8 and includes three brand-new tips and five
fully revised tips. A highly configurable cross-platform text editor Vim is a serious tool
for programmers web developers and sysadmins who want to raise their game. No other text
editor comes close to Vim for speed and efficiency it runs on almost every system imaginable
and supports most coding and markup languages. Learn how to edit text the Vim way: complete a
series of repetitive changes with The Dot Formula using one keystroke to strike the target
followed by one keystroke to execute the change. Automate complex tasks by recording your
keystrokes as a macro. Discover the very magic switch that makes Vim's regular expression
syntax more like Perl's. Build complex patterns by iterating on your search history. Search
inside multiple files then run Vim's substitute command on the result set for a project-wide
search and replace. All without installing a single plugin! Three new tips explain how to run
multiple ex commands as a batch autocomplete sequences of words and operate on a complete
search match. Practical Vim Second Edition will show you new ways to work with Vim 8 more
efficiently whether you're a beginner or an intermediate Vim user. All this without having to
touch the mouse. What You Need: Vim version 8
