Vim scripting the hard way

You have to respect someone who writes a book titled this!

http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

There is this little pearl in the front page (I tend to loose my .vimrc!!!):

"To easily find the location and name of the file on any operating system, run :echo $MYVIMRC"

So I'll read on...

little things make all the difference

<esc> v takes you straight to your favourite editor in bash... ah bliss... no more wrestling with crippled command line editing for me!!

why did no-one tell me!!