Practical Vim
Drew Neil
Published 2012
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.
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🟢 Developer Verdict
Master Vim's powerful features and practical techniques to significantly boost your editing speed and development efficiency.
Read this if
- ✓ You want to deeply master Vim for maximum text editing efficiency.
- ✓ You seek a powerful, cross-platform editor to use long-term.
- ✓ You aim to significantly speed up your daily coding workflows.
Skip this for now if
- ✗ You are looking for general software development principles.
- ✗ You prefer to learn a different text editor or IDE.
- ✗ You are completely new to command-line text editors.
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