Nothing hard-core Unix and Linux more fanatical about than their text editor. While maintaining all the valuable features of previous editions, edition 7 Learning the vi and vim editor has been expanded to include detailed information on vim, the leading vi clone. Vim is the default version of vi on Linux systems and Mac OS X, and is available for many other operating systems as well. With this guide, you learn text editing basics and advanced tools for both editors, such as multi-window editing, how to write both interactive macros and scripts to extend the editor, and power tools for programmers - all in easy to follow style who have made this book a classic. Learning the vi and vim editors include: A complete introduction to text editing with vi: How to move around vi in a hurry Beyond the basics, such as using buffers vi's global search and replacement Advanced editing, including vi customize and execute Unix commands How to make full use of vim: Extended text objects and more powerful regular expressions Multi-window editing and powerful vim scripts How to make full use of the GUI version of vim, called gvim's vim enhancements for programmers, such as highlighting, syntax folding and extended tags Coverage of three other popular vi clones - NVI, elvis, and dirty - is also included. You'll find several valuable appendices, including a quick reference alphabet for both ex and vi command mode for regular vi and for vim, plus annexes updated on vi and the Internet. Learning either vi or vim is required knowledge if you use Linux or Unix, and in either case, reading this book is very important.