Hacking Vim 7.2: Ready-to-use hacks with solutions for common situations encountered by users of the Vim editor - Softcover

Kim Schulz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849510504 ISBN 13: 9781849510509

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This book is a tutorial packed with ready-to-use hacks that give solutions for common problems faced by Vim users in their everyday life. Every chapter covers a set of recipes, each of which follows a systematic approach with a self-contained description of the task it covers, how to use it, and what you gain by using it. The minimum version of Vim required for each hack is clearly indicated. If you are a Vim user who wants to get more out of this legendary text editor, this book is for you. It focuses on making life easier for intermediate to experienced Vim users.

About this title

About the Author:

Kim Schulz has an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Aalborg University in Denmark. He has been an active developer in the Linux and Open Source communities since 1997 and has worked with everything from translation and bug fixing to producing full-blown software systems. This entire time, Vim has been Kim's editor of choice and it has been the first thing he installs whenever he sits by a new computer. Today Kim works as a full-time software engineer at CSR Plc. developing software for the next generation wireless technologies. A lot of Kim's spare time has been spent on developing the open-source CMS Fundanemt. This has lead to him now owning the web-hosting company Devteam Denmark that specializes in hosting and development of Fundanemt-based websites.

About this edition

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849510504
• ISBN 13: 9781849510509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244