Re: book

2007-05-14 Thread Micah Cowan
linda.s wrote:
 Hi,
 I am a beginner in VIM. Wonder whether there is any good book for VIM?
 Also, what is the difference between vim and latex?

Linda, I've personally found the vim tutorial to be a quite-adequate
means to learning vim. Just type vimtutor in your terminal, and you're
good to go!

Comparing vim and latex is somewhat akin to comparing apples to
screwdrivers. They're just completely different. Vim is a fully-featured
text editor (which is often used to edit input to latex); latex is a
typesetting program (or, more pedantically, a format for the TeX
typesetting program), which takes text files formatted a particular way,
and produces output suitable for printing.

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I hope that helped,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/




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Re: book

2007-05-14 Thread Kev

Micah Cowan wrote:

linda.s wrote:
  

Hi,
I am a beginner in VIM. Wonder whether there is any good book for VIM?
Also, what is the difference between vim and latex?



Linda, I've personally found the vim tutorial to be a quite-adequate
means to learning vim. Just type vimtutor in your terminal, and you're
good to go!

Comparing vim and latex is somewhat akin to comparing apples to
screwdrivers. They're just completely different. Vim is a fully-featured
text editor (which is often used to edit input to latex); latex is a
typesetting program (or, more pedantically, a format for the TeX
typesetting program), which takes text files formatted a particular way,
and produces output suitable for printing.

  
I agree the vimtutor is a great place to start.  Once you have worked 
through that simply typing :h and reading through
the help files is very informative.  If you read :h tags   first, you 
will learn how to navigate through the help file tag system.
I printed all the help files in order and had them bound to read on a 
trip.  If you like having a hard copy this is one of the

best.

If you're looking for a good book with a little more fluff, try   
http://www.truth.sk/vim/vimbook-OPL.pdf


Kevin


Re: book

2007-05-14 Thread jaywee
On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:07:03 -0700
linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 I am a beginner in VIM. Wonder whether there is any good book for VIM?
 Also, what is the difference between vim and latex?
 Thanks,
 Linda
I'm a beginner too, and I enjoy this best editor in the world very
much. As for the book, I recommend Learning the vi by O'reilly! I got
so much from that book!


Re: book

2007-05-14 Thread fREW

On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:07:03 -0700
linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 I am a beginner in VIM. Wonder whether there is any good book for VIM?
 Also, what is the difference between vim and latex?
 Thanks,
 Linda
I'm a beginner too, and I enjoy this best editor in the world very
much. As for the book, I recommend Learning the vi by O'reilly! I got
so much from that book!



Yeah, if you want to learn vi, the underlying system of vim, this is a
pretty good book.  The author does a few things the vi way instead of
the vim way, like the way he yanks with marks instead of with visual
mode, but it's still a good start.  But I think you would probably be
fine with the tutorial as well.

-fREW


Re: book

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Land

On May 14, 2007, at 8:43 PM, fREW wrote:


On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:07:03 -0700
linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 I am a beginner in VIM. Wonder whether there is any good book  
for VIM?

 Also, what is the difference between vim and latex?
 Thanks,
 Linda
I'm a beginner too, and I enjoy this best editor in the world very
much. As for the book, I recommend Learning the vi by O'reilly!  
I got

so much from that book!



Yeah, if you want to learn vi, the underlying system of vim, this is a
pretty good book.  The author does a few things the vi way instead of
the vim way, like the way he yanks with marks instead of with visual
mode, but it's still a good start.  But I think you would probably be
fine with the tutorial as well.


I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned the books on this page:

http://iccf-holland.org/click5.html

All of them are a bit old. The first one, Vi IMproved - Vim, by Steve
Oualline, is about six years old, and covers Vim 5.7, but much of it
would still be current.

Dave