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Mastering Vim. Efficient and effortless editing with Vim and Vimscript - Second Edition

Mastering Vim. Efficient and effortless editing with Vim and Vimscript - Second Edition

Ruslan Osipov

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Discover what makes Vim one of the most popular text editors in the world, renowned for its blend of efficiency, customization, extensibility, and portability. With Mastering Vim, you’ll come to appreciate its extensive plugin system and seamless integration with various tools, which enable Vim to provide developers with an extensible and customizable development environment for programmers.
This comprehensive guide to Vim will help you become more efficient at editing text: be it prose or code. Starting from the basics, advanced movement, and text operations, you’ll learn how Vim can be used as a full-fledged IDE. You’ll then progress to refactoring, debugging, building, testing, version control, plugins, and Vimscript through practical guidance. This second edition comes packed with fully revamped examples that are both engaging and easy to understand, complemented by drawings and diagrams that help to visualize the concepts covered in the book. Updated to cover Vim 9, this edition includes updated installation and troubleshooting instructions, along with examples in Vim9script.
By the end of this Vim book, you’ll be well-versed in Vim and have the skills you need to build a complete application using this popular text editor.
  • 1. Getting Started
  • 2. Advanced Editing and Navigation
  • 3. Follow the Leader Plugin Management
  • 4. Understanding Structured Text
  • 5. Build, Test, and Execute
  • 6. Refactoring Code with Regex and Macros
  • 7. Making Vim Your Own
  • 8. Transcending the Mundane with Vimscript
  • 9. Where to Go from Here
  • Title: Mastering Vim. Efficient and effortless editing with Vim and Vimscript - Second Edition
  • Author: Ruslan Osipov
  • Original title: Mastering Vim. Efficient and effortless editing with Vim and Vimscript - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781835080436, 9781835080436
  • Date of issue: 2024-07-31
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3uw1
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing