For those without a Kindle, remember that Kindle editions like this can be read using the PC or iDevice clients.
There's also a client for the Blackberry.
It sucks, but it'll do in a pinch.
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
#112I understand you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover - but a Vim book that has Visual Basic on the cover (legacy VB6 no less) seems like a big, big warning sign.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#113Also available on Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vim-Vi-Tips-Essential-ebook/dp/B004J...
Was surprised to find this.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#114I feel like a wimp for liking nano (pico)
Vi reminds me of the crazy-old wordstar days.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. More irony is ironic: there's no Kindle reader for Linux, which is one of the platforms on which vi/vim are most likely to be found. Thanks for nothing, Amazon.
The Kindle Cloud Reader works just fine for me on Linux (Chromium)...
Same here, on Kubuntu 12. It didn't work on the default rekonq browser, but it looks great in Firefox.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read almost twice as many books since I got my kindle for Christmas last year. I even prefer reading on the kindle to reading on a pc/tablet or a traditional book. That said, for reference books, it's worse than the alternatives. I almost exclusively use it for reading books back-to-back (i.e. relying very little on the arrow keys)
I completely agree. Kindle is great for cover-to-cover reading, but for reference I will always prefer dead-tree (but will settle for searchable pdfs)
I've found that a 10" tablet (a Touchpad in my case, though I imagine the experience with an iPad is equivalent) it pretty tough to beat for reference material. Doesn't have the navigation issues that the eink readers do, but it also allows me to make searchable annotations and highlights as I read.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't do it! Once your fingers learn and start to prefer hjkl you'll waste a lot of time and effort in other programs trying to use them. Really, more things just need vi-like interfaces :(
Name something you use that you think doesn't have a vi-like interface.
"Name something you use that you think doesn't have a vi-like interface."
- XCode
- Chrome
- Filthy XCode
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#118Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#119Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I've been using vim for 6 months, but I still feel like a n00b. Looking forward to checking this out. I started my vim experience using Janus But I didn't understand how anything worked or why any of the plugins were there. That led me to starting from scratch (I forked my cofounder's dotfiles) and now I feel like I know my vim config waaaay better. If you've been using janus, I'd highly…
I didn't use Janus, but I copied a really good, commented .vimrc from another Python and Ruby programmer. That was a mistake, but I didn't realise it at first because I thought "this does a lot of neat things that I need" but I had no idea what was really going on or how it was different from the default. So I did the same thing you did. Deleted it and started with blank dotfiles and no plugins.
I figured out that when you're in the learning stage with vim, you should always be editing your dotfiles because that's a big part of progressing up the learning curve.
Re: Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
#120I 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.
Why? It's not Amazon's fault, but rather the decision of the publisher... And I guess it's your loss anyway. I had the same problem (I have to use amazon.de), but hey, better that than nothing!
Actually, if you sign up for a U.S. account with a plausible address, then there is really nothing that would stop you from buying an ebook from the U.S.
They wonder why folks pirate. I paid for that book, I would feel well within my rights to find a copy of the book in PDF format (non-DRM encoded) and use that instead. I haven't done that - but there you have it. I paid for a book, I didn't get a refund of about $100 and I can no longer read the book. They stole from me.