Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 652.553 EAN: 9781565924970 ISBN: 1565924975 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 66 Publication Date: March 15, 1998 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 63587 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionThe vi Editor Pocket Reference is a companion volume to O'Reilly's newly updated 6th edition of Learning the vi Editor, presenting movement and editing commands, the command-line options, and other elements of the vi editor in an easy-to-use tabular format.
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Rating: - Necessary? Maybe.
If you use the vi editor often, you won't need this book. If, however, you're like me and use it once in a while to make changes in Linux system files, it can come in handy when you can't remember a command or two.
Also, the cover is darn cute! :-)
So basically this is a quick reference to the vi editor, with additional chapters covering all the other text-based editors that are based on vi (like vim, for instance).
Rating: - Not a useful reference, pocket or otherwise
This book has a major deficiency as a reference: you can't easily find a specific topic. The book has no index and the table of contents is too high-level to help you find a particular topic (for example, "vi Commands" as a table of contents entry isn't really going to help you locate a particular command).
The level of detail that is presented varies widely throughout the book. For example, Chapter 4 gives multi-sentence descriptions of the substitute command and regular expressions. ... Read More
Rating: - Vi - your answers
Great Vi book for Unix Beginners. It gives great examples to use the command being inquired.
Rating: - Commandline editor guide
This is a handy little book to have around if you use the "vi" text editor and haven't mastered all the commands. Or if you use a different text editor regularly, but find yourself in a place that has only vi. I have about 5 of the O'Reilly Pocket reference books and find them handy reminders for languages, etc. This book is not intended to "teach" a person how to use vi. It is what it says, a "reference" to jog your memory or possibly find how to cut and paste text or one of the numerous functions ... Read More
Rating: - A very, very good pocket reference
This is the first time I've given any book five stars. That's because this is the best pocket quick reference of VI you're going to find. The information is presented as concisely as it can be and still remain accessible. Other, terser (and, yes, less expensive) quick reference cards for VI are too cryptic to be useful, in my opinion.
If you don't already know VI, try an on-line tutorial (there are plenty) or buy the more complete "Learning VI" book from O'Reilly to get you started. ... Read More
- Necessary? Maybe.
- Not a useful reference, pocket or otherwise
- Vi - your answers
