Re: book
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 hope that helped, Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: book
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
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
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
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
