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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)

Neovim plugin highlights

Neovim is mostly backward compatible with Vim, and supports a huge number of Vim plugins (in fact, Neovim supports every plugin listed in this book except for Powerline).

However, since Neovim natively supports the implementation of asynchronous plugins and adds other developer-friendly features, there's a number of plugins that are only possible due to Neovim. It's worth mentioning that Vim added some of the features unique to Neovim in 8.0 (asynchronous plugin support) and 8.1 (Terminal mode) a few years after Neovim was created.

All of the following plugins (except for NyaoVim) were backported to Vim, but it's worth giving the Neovim community credit for the crea

tion of the plugins. The list is not in any way extensive, and might get out of date pretty quickly. The plugins are rated by popularity as of the time of writing of this book...