How This Book Is Structured

Modern Vim is a recipe book. It’s not designed to be read from start to finish. Each chapter is a collection of tips that are related by a theme, and each tip demonstrates a particular feature in action. Some tips are self-contained. Others depend upon material elsewhere in the book. Those tips are cross-referenced so you can find everything easily.

Modern Vim doesn’t progress from novice to advanced level, but each individual chapter does. A less-experienced Vim user might prefer to make a first pass through the book, reading just the early tips in each chapter. A more advanced user might choose to focus on the later tips or move around the book as needed. If it helps, you can think of this as a “Choose Your Own ...

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