The book is on a beautiful webpage free of ads and it is easy to navigate. I found many of the tips helpful. Thank you for your efforts!
-Tony 2009/5/18 Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <[email protected]> > > Saluton "Run Paint Run Run" :) > > (Funny nick...) > > On Mon 18 May 2009 20:53 +0200, Run Paint Run Run <[email protected]> > dixit: > > I'm writing a "cookbook" for Vim at http://vim.runpaint.org/ . It's > > released under a Creative Commons license in PDF and HTML. > > First of all, thanks for sharing the book with a "free" license. Thanks > for sharing knowledge, for a start :) > > > If anybody has suggestions or comments, I'd love to hear them. :-) > > I have just one suggestion, but it is tightly coupled with my way of > thinking about this kind of books ;) I think that the perfect place for > tips and tricks is a wiki and not a book for one main reasons: the wiki > allows readers to improve the tip/trick and update it when needed. It is > more "alive" than a book, even if the book is online. For such a mutable > thing as a tip'n'trick collection for a piece of software, keeping the > book up to date is difficult, and in a wiki the effort is somewhat > shared. > > This said, I'm happy that you wrote the book, because it will be useful, > but in my very humble opinion it is better if all the "recipes" are in > the Vim wiki. If I had the time to write such a cookbook (and the > talent, of course), I think I would dedicate that time (and, again, > talent) to the Vim wiki. > > As I said, it is my opinion and my view about cookbooks/tip'n'tricks or > whatever the name, and it doesn't subtract any merit from your book, > which I know it has been a big effort. > > As for the contents of the book, I think that it is very difficult to > evaluate or suggest particular things about a cookbook: until I need a > particular recipe, I don't know if it will work for me. This is good and > bad: it is good because the overall quality of the book will be high, > since most of the recipes are well tested and from reliable sources; it > is bad because it is very difficult to spot a "bug" or a mistake until > somebody actually needs some recipe and finds it doesn't work. > > In any case, keep the good work and thanks a lot for helping the Vim > community :)) > > -- > Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado > Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net > It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
