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Mastering Vim

By : Ruslan Osipov
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Mastering Vim

By: Ruslan Osipov

Overview of this book

Vim is a ubiquitous text editor that can be used for all programming languages. It has an extensive plugin system and integrates with many tools. Vim offers an extensible and customizable development environment for programmers, making it one of the most popular text editors in the world. Mastering Vim begins with explaining how the Vim editor will help you build applications efficiently. With the fundamentals of Vim, you will be taken through the Vim philosophy. As you make your way through the chapters, you will learn about advanced movement, text operations, and how Vim can be used as a Python (or any other language for that matter) IDE. The book will then cover essential tasks, such as refactoring, debugging, building, testing, and working with a version control system, as well as plugin configuration and management. In the concluding chapters, you will be introduced to additional mindset guidelines, learn to personalize your Vim experience, and go above and beyond with Vimscript. By the end of this book, you will be sufficiently confident to make Vim (or its fork, Neovim) your first choice when writing applications in Python and other programming languages.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

tmux, screen, and Vim terminal mode

Software development often involves more than just writing code: executing your binaries, running tests, and using command-line tools to accomplish certain tasks. That's where session and window managers come in.

Modern desktop environments allow you to have multiple windows, but we'll focus on how you can manage the tasks you need to accomplish in a single Terminal session.

tmux

tmux is a Terminal multiplexer: it allows you to manage multiple Terminal windows in a single screen.

If you're on a Debian-based distribution, you can install tmux using sudo apt-get install tmux. You can also build tmux from source, which is available from GitHub: https://github.com/tmux/tmux.

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