In the vast landscape of Linux, the prowess of a user is often measured by their fluency in text editing. Two titans dominate this realm: Vim and Emacs. These editors are not merely tools; they are ...

When you type vi on most Linux boxes, you're likely to get Vim. This is a good thing, but until now nobody has written a book that covers the features Vim has over vi. Steve Oualline to the rescue.

I've been using Linux/Vim for about 6 years now and have never had this problem. I just changed jobs, and installed RedHat 7.1. I seem to have lost my history in vim. Hitting up or down arrow yields ...

Editing multiple files at once is made easier in the vim text editor with the use of tabs. Vincent Danen goes over the basic tab commands and shows you how to combine them with key bindings to make ...

I never learned the vi cluster because I didn't need to. By the time I was really using vim (late 90s), it had already been updated to understand cursor keys. And Nethack, the other program that would ...

Today, most of us use graphical text editors, but many developers still use vi, or its modern clone Vim, or Emacs, and they're as passionate about their choice of editors as ever. I'm not sure why ...