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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned (or got a refresher on) how to use Git, including a quick brush-up on core concepts and setting up and cloning existing projects, and a rundown of the most frequent commands. You learned about vim-fugitive, a Vim plugin that makes Git a lot more interactive from inside Vim.

We covered vimdiff, a separate tool packaged with Vim made for comparing files and moving changes between files. We learned how to compare and move changes between multiple files. Furthermore, we got some practice at resolving nasty Git merge conflicts, which will hopefully make them less intimidating.

This chapter covered multiple ways of running shell commands when working with Vim, be it through tmux, screen, or Vim terminal mode

We also learned about (global) quickfix and (local) location lists, which can be used to store pointers to certain lines in files. We combined...