Learn Vim Tonight

Learn Vim Tonight: Use the World’s Most Productive Editor Tomorrow by Steve Litt iii Dedication For Brett, Rena and Valerie. How to Use this Book The first time you read this book, read it in order, cover to cover. Each chapter assumes knowledge of material in the preceding chapters. While reading this book, make use of Vim’s help facilities to round out the message. If you’re like me, you read your favorite books several times. Once you’ve completed “Learn Vim Tonight” for the first time, you can then use it as a reference book. To facilitate its use for reference, this book has a 2 level table of contents and a detailed, 2 level index, both with clickable links to get you right where you want to be. Page Numbering and PDF Readers I’ve tested this book in Adobe Acrobat Reader 7, gv, kghostview, xpdf, and kpdf. It looks good in all of them. In all of them supporting linking (all but gv and kghostview), all page, figure and chapter bookmarks are clickable links to get you to the referenced page, and the two level table of contents and two level index are comprised of clickable links. On Acrobat Reader, xpdf and kpdf, you can search this book for words and phrases. For all these reasons, “Learn Vim Tonight” is incredibly fast to use. On all viewers, clicking “index” from the table of contents brings you to the start of the last chapter instead of the start of the index. The quickest way to the index is to use your viewer’s “go to end” command — usually End or Ctrl+End. Likewise, the quickest way to the book cover page is usually Home or Ctrl+Home. Only Acrobat Reader correctly implements the “Go to page” function (Ctrl+Shift+n in Acrobat Reader). The rest bring start counting pages from the book cover page, not from the first page of Chapter 1. So if you use a viewer other than Acrobat Reader, use links (contents, index, chapter, figure and page) instead of the “go to page” function. Internet URLs and PDF Readers This Ebook has several clickable URLs, which, if the book is read on a PDF reader with URL capability, will pull up the URL on iv your default browser. XPDF has this capability, as do some versions of Acroread. The Troubleshooters.Com Bookstore You can find the Troubleshooters.Com bookstore at http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore. The Troubleshooters.Com bookstore is devoted to extending human performance, especially in the areas of troubleshooting and learning. Here is a list of the books we have so far: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts: Designed for you to learn troubleshooting in a single night of reading, this Ebook is by far the most succinct, and probably the best organized, tutorial on system independent troubleshooting. Reading this book won’t make you an expert, but if you haven’t yet studied the process of troubleshooting, it will make you a heck of a lot more productive tomorrow than you are today. Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting: Twenty eight short stories of troubleshooting, some true, some fictional. Each story is crafted so you can learn right along with the main character. This is perhaps the easiest, and definitely the most fun, introduction to the Universal Troubleshooting Process, and is recommended for anyone interested in troubleshooting. Upon completion of this book, you’ll understand and be able to use the Universal Troubleshooting Process. This book is available only as an Ebook. Manager’s Guide to Technical Troubleshooting: This is a manager’s overview of the Universal Troubleshooting Process. It starts with a thorough and logical explanation of the why of the Universal Troubleshooting Process, then an overview of troubleshooting principles, followed by a complete but simple treatment of the Universal Troubleshooting Process. The final chapter is “Implementing the UTP in Your Organization”. This book is especially recommended for managers of t