![]() You can edit remote files using SSH or FTP using Vim.The following chapters concern themselves with the basics of Vim: Modes, Working with Files, Navigation and Search. In the introduction Jovica details how one should approach learning Vim, and what learning techniques he himself uses. Some of which might not be super useful to you, but most of which give you this feeling of ‘Oh yeah, that always bothered me, good to know that this is how I can fix it’. It becomes clear pretty quickly that the book is basically Jovica Ilic showing you many of the tips and tricks that he personally learned and found useful on his Vim journey. Who it is suited for though, is people who are interested in learning about some of the more arcane features of Vim. So, Mastering Vim might be ill-suited for absolute beginners. ![]() Which is fine: One book has nearly three times the pages of the other. Mastering Vim spends little time on basics, and goes not nearly as much into depth on various topics (Registers, Buffers) as Practical Vim does. I really don’t think Mastering Vim Quickly can hold the torch to Practical Vim when it comes to learning Vim from scratch. The electron based nyaovim has some potential but in my experience it tends to be very slow in some edge situations (e.g., opening a big rails schema.rb file with a lot of ale linter errors). That doesn’t mean that I’m unhappy that I bought it, I just felt that there was some wasted potential, and maybe some issues with how the book was advertised. So far vimr is the best one for rendering speed, but I've been using it only for a couple days so I can't say anything about stability or hiccups. I’m gonna be honest, this book didn’t leave me totally blown away. I deliberated whether I should buy it for some time - you know, too expensive, got so many books I haven’t read lying around already - but after some time my curiosity won out. One that caught my attention, mostly due to its Twitter feed (which I recommend you check out, it’s really quite good) was Mastering Vim Quickly by Jovica Ilic. ![]() One of which is, coincidentally, reading more books about Vim. I wrote about Practical Vim a while ago, and since then I have been trying to improve my Vim in a number of ways.
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