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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

You now know how to navigate core concepts Vim operates by: using buffers to represent files, utilizing split windows, and using tabs to organize multiple windows. You've also learned how to use folds to make navigating large files more manageable.

You now should be more confident getting through a large code base by navigating files with plugins such as Netrw, NERDTree, Vinegar, and CtrlP. Oh, and this chapter taught you a quick (even though it's a slightly manual) way to install said plugins.

This chapter covered new movement operations, text objects, ways to quickly dart into insert mode, and how to make even fancier jumps throughout the file using the EasyMotion plugin. We've also dipped into search functionality, searching both within a single file and across the whole code base. You get a bonus point for trying out the ack plugin.

Finally, this chapter...