My favorites IT-books : Practical Vim
I re-discovered Vim in october 2014, during my first IT-production melt-down : servers where falling down, nothing responded, and I needed on-production changes to put back up the services. It was my first experience with server-side production issues.
A colleague ssh-ed to the server, and begin checking log files and scripts with Vim. Long-forgotten keystrokes like re-appared in front of my dazzled eyes :
[:q!] [:wq] [:o] [:dd] [:yy] [:p] [j] [k] [.] [:3d] [>G][:.,$d]If you are unsure about some of the here-before example, but it appeals you to better understand them, then “Practical Vim” is for you. It is an amazing book about Vim, with extremely clear and precise information about Vim, as you can see from the extract proposed on Amazon:
Drew Neil can spend 2 to 3 pages to explain all the details on how to understand the under-structure and logic of Vim in a very-specific case, making it ultra-clear to follow, and delicious to read.
The book is organised around 123 tips, and you can believe me : there is a lot to learn in this 320 pages ! The index is really well-made too, which is always a nice feature.
It is an excellent book to cherry-pick ideas on a better utilisation of Vim. I some time read some pages in bed, before falling to sleep, dreaming about my next day experimenting with Vim…
https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edition/
