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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, we've covered ways to enhance Vim's user interface and personalize Vim.

We've looked at color schemes, ways to configure them, finding them, and browsing them. We've also looked at ways to enhance Vim's status line with a heavyweight Powerline or a lightweight Airline plugin.

We've looked at GUI configuration specific to gVim, and how to customize the way gVim looks.

Finally, as you use Vim more, you'll develop your own style and personal workflow. This workflow is best enhanced by bindings and shortcuts. As your .vimrc grows, there are a number of ways to get it organized, well documented, and easy to navigate.

In the next chapter we'll learn Vimscript, an extensive scripting language which comes packaged with Vim.