Goal

Availability:
The DocBOok source of the book will be available online at http://www.vim.org/book/ - aas well as some other (converted) formats, eg ASCII, HTML, LaTeX, PostScript, DVI, PDF, RTF...

Copyright:
Unsure. There are three kinds of licenses we are considering:

• GNU's General Public Licence (GPL)
• GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
• Open Publication Licence (OPL)

License: [000411]
The license is a tricky thing. We'd like the source to be publically available so it will be available as a good example and to allow as much feedback as possible. The GPL seems to be widely accepted and has been around for two decades by now, however, the OPL seems to be quite interesting, too. Comments ont his matter are very welcome!

Media:
A book of about 500 pages, including a CD. The CD has a snapshot of the Vim ftp site, the Vim Pages, and sevreal others Vi sources, (eg some docs available online) and, of course, the Vim Book itself in various formats.

ProofReading: These people have volunteered to proof-reading the script:

001108	Massimo Manghi		massimo.manghi@libero.it
000410	Hong Feng		fred@mail.rons.net.cn
000317	Jay Peter Grayson	grayson.20@osu.edu
000227	Mark Summerfield	summer@perlpress.com

Contacts:
	Kim Spilker	KimS@primapub.com

Examples: GTK+/Gnome Application Development

Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage·

Source:
The book will be written in "DocBook", a popular DTD for SGML.

Structure:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Organization of the Book; Typographic Conventions; etc
• Acknowledgements
• Retrieval - How to get Vim on the Internet
• Installation - How to install Vim on various platforms
  Editing
  • Editing - The Vi Way (philosophy on "modal editing")
  • Editing - Basic
  • Editing - Advanced
  Customization
  • Customization - How to set up Vim for one/several/all users
  • Customization - How do GUIs (GTK/Motif/Athena/Win32) differ?
  • Customization - How to use abbreviations and macros
  • Customization - How to use macros/mappings
  • Customization - How to use regular expressions
  • Customization - Sample Setups
• Interfacing - How to interface Vim with Perl, Python, and TCL
• Programming - How to use Vim for Programing in C and Fortran
• Scripting - Simple and advanced scripts for editing
• Utilities - Useful external programs and how to use them
• Coloring - How to use customize the default syntax coloring (adding file types, adding additonal syntax, and writing your own sytax files)
• Appendix A: Resources on the CD
• Appendix B: Resources on the Net
• Appendix C: Quotes about Vim ;-)
• Glossary
• Index

Comments and Ideas:
000127: Wouter Verheijen verheije@worldonline.nl: Every chapter should gradually introduce new commands - not all at once. (Yes, that's what ":help" is for. ;-)

Possible Contributers

Links

GNU's General Public Licence (GPL)

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Open Publication Licence (OPL)

http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/

URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/book.html
URL:         http://www.vim.org/book.html (mirror)
Created:     Mon Dec 06 12:00:00 MET 1999