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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"