The Vim book by Steve Oualline is the first book to be completely dedicated to Vim, the text editor.

I can recommend this book especially for beginners and those who use Vim for a short while and would like to learn more. The most often used commands are explained with many figures and examples. Steve has a writing style that is very easy to read. Advanced Vim users will find many hints for useful features. The more advanced items are not explained in detail though.

The foreword is great! Well, I wrote it... I also reviewed the text, hopefully all mistakes have been corrected. There are appendices that list all the commands and options. At the end there is a quick reference for the most often used commands. The text was written for Vim version 5.7.

The book has been published in April 2001. You can find information from the publisher here. There is a sample chapter (PDF format) and the table of contents. The quick reference is available as PDF and HTML, so that you can print it. Although this says there are 450 pages, there are actually about 600 pages!

I have started an unofficial errata list. You can find it here

You can find the Vim book at the sites below. Buying through these links will send 5% to 15% of the sales to ICCF Holland. The money is used to help orphans in Uganda (see the home page). You should also be able to get the book in other (on-line) bookstores that have the New Riders books.