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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)

Playing with the Vim UI

Vim has extensible UI, and it doesn't always have to look like it's stuck in the 90s. You can change its themes, tweak the way certain UI elements are displayed, and enhance the information displayed in a status line. If you're a gVim user, there are even more customization options available to you!

Color schemes

Vim has a plethora of beautiful color schemes available, both packaged with Vim and made by community members.

You can change the color scheme by changing the colorscheme setting in your .vimrc, as follows:

:colorscheme elflord

To get a list of currently installed color schemes, execute :colorscheme Ctrl + d. This will list every installed color scheme:

In the preceding example...