Personalize and Optimize Vim editor using Packt’s new Vim 7.2 book

Packt is pleased to announce Hacking Vim 7.2 that helps readers to create, install, and use Vim scripts in order to enhance Vim's functionality. Written by Kim Schulz, this book provides ready-to-use hacks with solutions for common situations encountered by users of the Vim editor.

Vim is GPL compatible and highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the Vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. It is one of the most powerful open-source editors used by programmers and system administrators around the world.

Hacking Vim 7.2 helps readers improve the text and code formatting and extend the Vim with scripts, in order to customize and simplify their Vim experience. They will learn to boost the productivity by using templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers. Furthermore they would also know how to navigate through files simultaneously.

This book starts off with introductory topics like derivation of Vim and its relatives from the Vi editor. It then takes readers to advanced topics such as improved navigation through files and buffers in Vim; formatting text and code using external formatting scripts, using Vim scripts and scripting, in order to extend the Vim functionality.

Intermediate to experienced Vim users who want to gain a systematic approach towards extending their scripting performance will find this book a beneficial and interesting read. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/hacking-vim-7-2/book