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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)

Building and testing

As you work on your code, you will have to compile (in compiled languages, which does not apply to Python) it and run accompanying tests.

Vim supports populating build and test failures through quickfix and location lists, which we will cover in this section.

Quickfix list

You've already had a brush with a quickfix window in Chapter 2, Advanced Editing and Navigation, but let's dig a bit deeper into it.

Vim has an additional mode that makes jumping to certain parts of files easier. Some Vim commands use it to navigate between positions in files, such as jumping to compile errors for :make or search terms for :grep or :vimgrep. Plugins such as linters (syntax checking) or test runners use the...