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Learning the vi and Vim Editors
Learning the vi and Vim Editors is a tutorial book for the vi and vim text editors written by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb and published by O'Reilly Media. The book is in its 7th edition. The book features a tarsier on the cover, an image which was also used on the cover of O'Reilly's "Unix in a Nutshell" and has been incorporated into O'Reilly Media. When questioned about the animal choice, Publisher Tim O'Reilly described the tarsier as looking "
a refactor of Vim, that strives to be a superset of vim.
- Neatvi, a reimplementation of vi from scratch with minimal footprint (<6kLOC) and dependencies. Supports UTF-8, editing bidirectional text, and generally has a good coverage of the POSIX vi feature set with some extensions such as infinite undo/redo, basic syntax highlighting, and a partial implementation of ex(1).
See also.
- List of text editors
- Comparison of text editors
- visudo
- List of Unix commands