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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Pro Vim - Mark McDonnell</h1>
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2019-09-04
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/vim/">#vim</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/mark-mcdonnell/">#mark mcdonnell</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-2/">#stars:2</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23717582-pro-vim">GoodReads link</a>: (No
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summary exists).</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>First, the disclaimers: I'm a VIM user since early 2000; I wrote a "Using VIM"
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book-of-sorts (in Portuguese); this book is, at the time of this review, 5
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years old.</p>
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<p>The book intro said it was called "Pro" 'cause there was no middle ground for
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VIM: when you start learning VIM, you have to go all the way to pro.</p>
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<p>So, is it a book aimed for beginners? Maybe. VIM has a very steep learning
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curve, but things can be smoothed out by explaining things in steps; because
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VIM uses composable commands, you can explain movement -- say, "w" moves the
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cursor to "next Word", "e" moves the cursor to the end of the word and so on
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-- and then explain that you can modify the text using a verb and a movement
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-- "d" is delete and "dw" means "delete word". But the book decides to jump
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around and, while explaining movement, jumps into the modification verbs
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without explaining verbs before: There you are, leisurely reading about moving
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the cursor around and suddenly a "c2w" appears, with no explanation of what
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the "c" or "2" does. It works, but I have the feeling that it more confusing
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to dump things straight away than explaining step by step and how things
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connect.</p>
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<p>Is it a book aimed for people who already know VIM? Maybe not. Surely there
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are a few things one can still learn about VIM years after using it, but after
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20 years, I guess I read everything VIM can do at this point. But, again,
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maybe you don't have 20 years of VIM and there are things you still don't
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know.</p>
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<p>Does it show ways to make you more productive in VIM? I'm not sure. I mean,
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the whole book is based on the author's workflow -- a workflow that is only
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slightly exposed -- and if you don't have the same workflow... Maybe it won't
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fit at all on yours, 'cause it focus on the workflow and not on how certain
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movements/commands can improve yours.</p>
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<p>Is this book up-to-date? In the VIM commands part, yes. In the plug-ins... not
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so much. VIM got a bunch of new releases recently (say, last year) and, thus,
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a lot has changed in the plug-in area. Surely Fugitive (which the author
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decided it should be called "fugative", for some reason) is still the most
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feature-complete Git plugin, but everything else was already replaced (and
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yes, that book-of-sorts I wrote also suffers from this problem).</p>
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<p>Why Tmux is there? Well, VIM mixes well with Tmux, but I have to ask
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<i>why</i> it is there. Why there isn't a section for rxvt, for example? Or
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Gnome-Terminal? Doesn't VIM mixes well with those too? (My guess is, again,
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that the book focus a lot on the author's workflow and not how things in the
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workflow improved things, so because the author feels Tmux improved his
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workflow, we must talk about Tmux). There is also the problem that the author
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recommends using his configuration, so a lot of keybinds are not the default
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ones, and one starting from scratch may not understand why things aren't
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working.</p>
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<p>Again, the book didn't age well. Plugins are out of date, there should be a
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serious editorial work on it -- one chapter has paragraphs with garbled
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content, which is completely unintelligible -- there is no "Style Conventions"
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for things, so keystrokes will appear in one style in one chapter and in a
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different style in the next. And some things are shown in one chapter and only
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explained in the next, which makes me think the order was changed after the
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chapters were written.</p>
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<p>In general, it may be OK if you are starting with VIM, but that's that.</p>
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