{"product_id":"9781934356982","title":"Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eVim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS—if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. \u003ci\u003ePractical Vim\u003c\/i\u003e shows you 120 vim recipes so you can quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVim, like its classic ancestor vi, is a serious tool for programmers, web developers, and sysadmins. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn 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. Run the same command on a selection of lines, or a set of files.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover the \"very magic\" switch, which 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll learn how to navigate text documents as fast as the eye moves—with only a few keystrokes. Jump from a method call to its definition with a single command. Use Vim's jumplist, so that you can always follow the breadcrumb trail back to the file you were working on before. Discover a multilingual spell-checker that does what it's told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePractical Vim\u003c\/i\u003e will show you new ways to work with Vim more efficiently, whether you're a beginner or an intermediate Vim user.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll this, without having to touch the mouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat You Need:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVim version 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrew Neil is an independent programmer, writer, and trainer. He runs workshops around the world, speaks regularly at conferences, and specializes in making educational screencasts. At vimcasts.org, he publishes articles and video tutorials about Vim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033363890416,"sku":"9781934356982","price":23.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934356982_p0.jpg?v=1763641894","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934356982","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}