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+slug: vim-books
+title: "Vim Books"
+date: "2024-06-02T10:00:00-04:00"
+---
+
+While perusing [Vim scripts][], I noticed that there are several [Vim
+books][]. Even though I have been using [Vim][] for over 20 years a
+couple of them piqued my interest:
+
+- [Practical Vim][]
+- [Modern Vim][]
+
+As of this writing I'm about 300 pages into [Practical Vim][] and it's
+great. I have even learned a few things; for example, I did not
+know about [the `\v` "very magic" prefix for patterns][very-magic].
+
+If you buy the books from [the publisher][pragprog] you can download the
+[eBooks][] as [DRM][]-free [PDF][], [EPUB][], and MOBI files. I read
+the [PDFs][pdf] on my desktop and the [EPUBs][epub] in the [Kindle
+app][] on my phone (imported via [Send to Kindle][]).
+
+[pragprog]: https://pragprog.com/
+ "The Pragmatic Bookshelf"
+[drm]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
+ "Digital Rights Management"
+[pdf]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
+ "Portable Document Format (PDF)"
+[epub]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
+ "e-book file format"
+[ebooks]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook
+ "electronic book"
+[vim]: https://www.vim.org/
+ "Vi-improved text editor"
+[very-magic]: https://vimhelp.org/pattern.txt.html#%2Fmagic
+ "Documentation for magic settings in Vim, including the \\v \"very magic\" prefix."
+[kindle app]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Kindle_applications
+ "Kindle application"
+[send to kindle]: https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle
+ "Send to Kindle"
+[practical vim]: https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edition/
+ "Practical Vim, Second Edition"
+[modern vim]: https://pragprog.com/titles/modvim/modern-vim/
+ "Modern Vim"
+[vim books]: https://iccf-holland.org/vim_books.html
+ "Vim books"
+[vim scripts]: https://www.vim.org/scripts/
+ "Scripts for Vim"