Simply Vim: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Vim text-editor

Anyone can learn Vim! You don't even need a book, you can use "Vimtutor" to learn the basics of Vim from the comfort of your Terminal. This book is written to save Vim users a lot of headaches that come with the steep learning curve of Vim.

What you can find inside this book

• You will find the fundamentals of Vim so you can easily get acquainted with it, even if you have never used Vim.
• The basics are thorough and dense in print, so even if you are an intermediate or advanced user you can learn stuff you may have never seen before.
• Advanced features like Tag Jumping, folding, programming Autocomplete into your .vimrc, etc. are covered for intermediate users.
• Heavy attention has been given to the usage, programming, and distribution of Vim-plugins; you will be able to get practical experience of large-scale software development and Vim Development.
• Advanced coding practices are covered to improve your coding speed dramatically, you can practically code at thousands of lines per minute with these methods; entire programs can be written within minutes!
• VimScript is thoroughly covered, you can learn how to program Vim to do your bidding, hence using Vim at full power; without VimScript Vim may as will be just another text editor!
• A chapter is entirely devoted to advanced techniques to practicing what you have learned; this takes memorizing out of the practice equation.
• Instructions are given to use Vim with advanced document formats like HTML, DOCX, etc.
• Instructions are given to extend your journey to program and code in Vim beyond this book.
• A lot of informative material is provided to get you acquainted with the Vim-sphere.

This book will take care of all your Vim related needs! It will teach you all you need to learn, and it will tell you all you need to know! This book will make you fall in love with Vim; you will be able to grok Vim before you know it!