diff --git a/chapter08/vim.xml b/chapter08/vim.xml
index 948650e34..8672ad818 100644
--- a/chapter08/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter08/vim.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Prepare vim for compilation:</para>
+    <para>Prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
+    <para>Many users reflexively type <command>vi</command> instead of
     <command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
     when users habitually enter <command>vi</command>, create a
     symlink for both the binary and the man page in the provided
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ for L in  /usr/share/man/{,*/}man1/vim.1; do
     ln -sv vim.1 $(dirname $L)/vi.1
 done</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>By default, vim's documentation is installed in <filename
+    <para>By default, Vim's documentation is installed in <filename
     class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>. The following symlink
     allows the documentation to be accessed via <filename
     class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making
@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@ done</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv ../&vim-docdir;/doc /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>If an X Window System is going to be installed on the LFS
-    system, it may be necessary to recompile vim after installing X. Vim
+    system, it may be necessary to recompile Vim after installing X. Vim
     comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some
     additional libraries to be installed. For more information on this
-    process, refer to the vim documentation and the vim installation page
+    process, refer to the Vim documentation and the Vim installation page
     in the BLFS book at <ulink
     url="&blfs-book;postlfs/vim.html"/>.</para>
 
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>vim -c ':options'</userinput></screen>
 
     <note>
-      <para>By default, vim only installs spell files for the English language.
-      To install spell files for your preferred language, copy the
+      <para>By default, vim only installs spell-checking files for the English language.
+      To install spell-checking files for your preferred language, copy the
       <filename class='extension'>.spl</filename> and optionally, the
       <filename class='extension'>.sug</filename> files for your language
       and character encoding from
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
       <filename class='directory'>
         /usr/share/&vim-docdir;/spell/</filename>.</para>
 
-      <para>To use these spell files, some configuration in
+      <para>To use these spell-checking files, some configuration in
       <filename>/etc/vimrc</filename> is needed, e.g.:</para>
 
 <screen><literal>set spelllang=en,ru
@@ -297,7 +297,8 @@ set spell</literal></screen>
         <term><command>xxd</command></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>Creates a hex dump of the given file; it can
-          also do the reverse, so it can be used for binary patching</para>
+          also perform the inverse operation, so it can be used for binary
+          patching</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-vim xxd">
             <primary sortas="b-xxd">xxd</primary>
           </indexterm>