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Summary: makes an ugly editor bearable
Review: This book gathers a great deal of information that you can get for free over the web, and puts it into a nice place on your bookshelf. Not a "GREAT" piece of work at all, but then, neither is the VI editor. The true value for me was it's references and comparisons to VI clones that are on the market that you will quickly want to download once you start realizing how awfull VI really is.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This book got me through vi in such an incredibly short time, I couldn't believe it. Now I have broken free from the boundaries of pico and the bloat of emacs, thanks to Ms. Lamb. I have yet to get my hands on an O'Reilly book that wasn't excellent. This book continues that tradition!
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Summary: Helped me to grok vi
Review: This book is a great intro to vi for beginners and is an excellent desktop reference for people to keep handy. I keep it handy because I cannot always remember that obscure command that will rearrange my document with little effort.
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Summary: You don't know the power of VI
Review: This book is a great intro to vi for beginners and is an excellent desktop reference for people to keep handy. I keep it handy because I cannot always remember that obscure command that will rearrange my document with little effort.
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Summary: must-have for vi users
Review: This book is a must-have for all those die-hard vi users.
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Summary: Great Introduction
Review: This book not only covered basic vi, but also variants such as vim, elvis, and more. I knew next to nothing going into this book, and by the end of the first few chapters, I was VERY comfortable with this often scary editor. Now that I know many of the powerful features, there's no going back to the others...
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Summary: A Must Have!
Review: This book will help you to work smarter. With this book, I'm discovering so many powerful commands that I never knew existed. This is one of the better books in my collection....even if most of my collection is made up of books from O'Reilly & Associates. These books are wells of information. This book is fantastic!
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Summary: Great introduction to and reference for VI
Review: This is a short book and let's you know everything you need to know about vi. It is an excellent source for anyone who wants to learn vi but doesn't use it enough to memorize all of the shortcuts.All the major topics are covered, from the basics to the arcane commands, but then again, isn't every vi command arcane :) In short, if you use vi, but this book, it will save you a lot of frustration.
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Summary: The Best Guide To Using vi
Review: vi has a well-deserved reputation as being one of the least friendly editors in the UNIX world. This book, however, makes vi relatively painless to use, even for those accustomed to GUIs. Nowadays vi tends to be used mostly for quick editing of configuration scripts and the expansive amount of detail here is not likely to be that useful to people except those who plan to use vi almost exclusively. If you follow the examples, and practive using vi while reading this book, however, you will find that it does cover all the basics well and that you will feel quite at home with this much-maligned text editor. Most of this information is available freely on the net, but it not collected in one place in such an orderly fashion as this. Much of the advanced features will probably be rarely used, but if you spend a fortnight with this book in front of a UNIX or Linux box, you will find that you will be a vi pro in no time!
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Summary: Essential material clearly presented
Review: Vi is a powerful yet difficult editor to learn in the beginning. Although there is an abundance of references on the web, it is very difficult to learn the editor effectively without a book. Even more difficult to learn is the advanced features of the editor. The book has definitely made the learning process as painless as possible. The chapters are arranged in such a way that the reader can learn the editor incrementally without being fed too much information at once. At the end of each chapter there is a reference so the reader can refresh what he/she has learned in the chapter. (This also makes the book a very good reference.) What I like most about the book is in Part II of the book: "Extensions and Clones." The book first gives a summary of all the common USEFUL features of the clonse. Then, in subsequent chapters, the author shows how to use the features in each of the clones. This has made my life much easier because I can look up what I need and then go to the particular chapter (in my case, vim) for the information in the sub-chapter.
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