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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)

Oni

Oni (https://github.com/onivim/oni) is a cross-platform GUI editor on top of Neovim, that brings IDE-like features into Neovim, including an embedded browser, built-in autocompletion and fuzzy search, a command palette, a set of tutorials, and a lot more quality-of-life features. All of this while respecting Neovim configuration and key bindings. It looks rather nice:

For instance, here's how its embedded browser looks (open the command palette with Ctrl + Shift + p and type Browser):

In the true spirit of Vim, it supports mouse-free navigation (press Ctrl + g followed by a key combination on screen to click on an element):

The vast list of features is easy to get lost in, and it's worth trying out Oni.