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Learning the vi and Vim Editors 2021
Learning the vi and Vim Editors is a tutorial book for the vi and vim text editors, authored by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb, and released by O'Reilly Media. This work represents the 8th edition of the guide. The cover displays a tarsier, an image previously used on O'Reilly's Unix in a Nutshell and now included in O'Reilly Media. Publisher Tim O'Reilly explained the selection of the tarsier, stating it resembled "somebody who had been text editor for too long."
Arnold Robbins co-wrote several O'Reilly publications including Unix In A Nutshell, Effective awk Programming, sed & awk, Classic Shell Scripting, and multiple pocket reference titles related to these tools and languages. Elbert Hannah is a retired software engineer from the telecom field. Linda Lamb formerly worked at O'Reilly.
In 2008, Mike Riley reviewed the 7th edition for Dr. Dobb's Journal, describing its content as combining Vim's online help with O'Reilly’s vi Editor Pocket Reference. Although he acknowledged that it "continues to fulfill an apparent market need," Riley concluded it was not suitable for experienced users.
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- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media
- ISBN
- 9781492078807
- Pages
- 500
