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Mastering Vim

Mastering Vim

By : Ruslan Osipov
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Mastering Vim

Mastering Vim

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By: Ruslan Osipov
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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)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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Getting Started
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Getting Started
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Technical requirements
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Let’s start a conversation (about modal interfaces)
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Installation
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Vanilla Vim vs gVim
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Configuring Vim with your .vimrc
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Common operations (or how to exit Vim)
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Moving around: talk to your editor
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Making simple edits in insert mode
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Persistent undo and repeat
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Read the Vim manual using :help
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Summary
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Advanced Editing and Navigation
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Advanced Editing and Navigation
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Technical requirements
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Installing plugins
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Organizing workspace
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Navigating file trees
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Navigating text
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Copying and pasting with registers
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Summary
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Follow the Leader - Plugin Management
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Follow the Leader - Plugin Management
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Technical requirements
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Managing plugins
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Deeper dive into modes
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Remapping commands
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The leader key
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Configuring plugins
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Summary
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Understanding the Text
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Understanding the Text
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Technical requirements
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Code autocomplete
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Navigating the code base with tags
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Undo tree and Gundo
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Summary
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Build, Test, and Execute
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Build, Test, and Execute
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Technical requirements
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Working with version control
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Resolving conflicts with vimdiff
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tmux, screen, and Vim terminal mode
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Building and testing
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Summary
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Refactoring Code with Regex and Macros
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Refactoring Code with Regex and Macros
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Technical requirements
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Search or replace with regular expressions
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Recording and playing macros
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Using plugins to do the job
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Summary
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Making Vim Your Own
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Making Vim Your Own
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Technical requirements
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Playing with the Vim UI
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Keeping track of configuration files
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Healthy Vim customization habits
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Summary
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Transcending the Mundane with Vimscript
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Transcending the Mundane with Vimscript
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Technical requirements
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Why Vimscript?
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How to execute Vimscript
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Learning the syntax
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A word about style guides
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Let's build a plugin
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Further reading
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Summary
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Neovim
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Neovim
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Technical requirements
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Why make another Vim?
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Installing and configuring Neovim
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Neovim plugin highlights
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Summary
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Where to Go from Here
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Where to Go from Here
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Seven habits of effective text editing
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Modal interfaces everywhere
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Recommended reading and communities
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Summary
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Refactoring Code with Regex and Macros

This chapter will focus on features provided by Vim to support refactoring operations.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Using search or replace functionality with :substitute
  • Using regular expressions to make searches and substitutions smarter
  • Using arglist to perform operations on multiple files
  • Examples of refactoring operations, such as renaming methods and reordering arguments
  • Macros, which let you record and replay keystrokes
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