> > * improve the chapter to take advantage of modern implementations of > > vi in modern unix. > > Your last point was exactly where I was going with this. Having your editor > (gvim in this case) in one window, and your shell in another, makes life so > much easier, for example. Cherry-pick one or two things like that, then > point out that we’re only scratching the surface of what modern versions > can do. Point them to vim.org for more info.
looks very good to me: things like as, ap, autowrite, the % expand or even syntax highlighting are really useful indeed. i'm very afraid of the new vimers using tons of plugins to do jobs that are possible with ! command from the very begining of vi. sorry for disturbing :) > I’ve not used another editor where you can pipe chunks of text *ad hoc* > through scripts or even awk/perl one-liners. except ed, sam (AFAIR), and every vi clones i used. regards.
