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Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

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Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

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Post by chris_wot »

I once tried (and succeeded!) at purchasing the Dragon Book for Kindle, but had to change to a US address. I bought the book, bu then Amazon wanted me to verify I had moved to the U.S.

I never bought another book from Amazon ever again.

Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

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Post by acomar »

vilgax wrote: post #32
1007 wrote: post #30

Any way to download and read this on linux ?

Don't know about download but you can read it online using Amazon Cloudreader.

Download is easy enough, just click the transfer via usb option, and it'll download a .azw file. You can't read it without stripping out the DRM first, but that's not very hard either.

Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

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Post by DEinspanjer »

dkersten wrote: post #26
mikegirouard wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wound up doing the same thing (not with Janus, but with a massive forked .vimrc). One day I was SSH'd into a remote server and vim'd a directory by accident and I discovered Netrw. It wasn't the same as NERDTree, but it was good enough for me to get rid of that plugin. Eventually I just learned to enjoy the defaults with minor tweaks. Today my vimrc[1] is [1]: https://github.com/mgirouard/Dots/blob/master/.vimrc

I used NERDTree for a long time until I saw a simple tutorial to netrw - now I love netrw and don't want to ever go back to NERDTree. It's simple and to the point and just works really well for me.

Hm.. maybe I need to take another look at netrw. Last time I played with it, the big thing that led me to prefer NERDTree was the difficulty in opening a file you navigated to in the pane to the right. It kept replacing the netrw pane.

Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

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Post by austinlyons »

Vim is one of those tools that I shied away from because of the steep learning curve. A co-worker convinced me to give it a try, and now I use Vim everyday. I'm constantly discovering useful commands and tricks. Looking forward to learning more from this free book - thanks Amazon.

Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

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Post by dhimes »

brown9-2 wrote: post #10
dspillett wrote: post #5

For those without a Kindle, remember that Kindle editions like this can be read using the PC or iDevice clients.

Or Mac, or "Cloud Reader" through your web browser.

+1 for cloud reader for programming books. It's open in one window, code in another, terminal in another. Drawbacks, however, include (1) is you can't copy-and-paste from the book; and (2) links don't work [which makes drawback (1) very annoying].

Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

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Post by msmithstubbs »

DEinspanjer wrote: post #47
dkersten wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used NERDTree for a long time until I saw a simple tutorial to netrw - now I love netrw and don't want to ever go back to NERDTree. It's simple and to the point and just works really well for me.

Hm.. maybe I need to take another look at netrw. Last time I played with it, the big thing that led me to prefer NERDTree was the difficulty in opening a file you navigated to in the pane to the right. It kept replacing the netrw pane.

You can configure this with g:netrw_browse_split. Setting it to 4 will open the file in the previous window.

See :help netrw_browse_split for other options.

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