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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

That was quite a bit of work! Let's do a quick recap!

We've learned that Vimscript lets us take Vim anywhere we want, limiting your productivity only by your imagination. We've covered setting and manipulating variables, working with lists and dictionaries, surfacing output, and control flows using if, for, and while statements. We've also covered functions, lambda expressions, the Vimscript equivalent of classes, as well as some more functional approaches using map and filter functions. We've also looked at Vim-specific commands and functions.

We've also built our first plugin, vim-commenter. The plugin lets you comment and uncomment lines in a Python file at the press of a button (well, two). We've learned how to structure our plugins, and how to use Vimscript to accomplish our goals. We've even brushed distributing the plugin...