On Sep 01, 2011 at 05:15 PM -0700, Hozzy2u wrote:
Is the material on vi of any value in learning Vim? Money is a little
short lately and I don't wish to waste any. Thanks to anyone kind
enough to answer this.
It's not a bad book. But if you want to save some cash, either buy it
used, or just use the references found here:
http://www.vim.org/docs.php
I'd like to particularly call your attention to the book mentioned.
It's a full pdf available for free. Between that, searching for
specific things on google, and reading vim's excellent built in help,
you should be able to pick it up fine.
As people have already said, Vim is based on vi, so a lot of the basic
commands are the same. And the basic commands are the ones that it
seems are foreign to most people: getting used to the modal nature of
the editor, navigating with the hjkl keys, etc. Once you get used to
that stuff, you should be comfortable enough with the basic operation of
the program to learn anything else you need to know via Google and the
built-in help.
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