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Mastering Vim

Mastering Vim

By : Osipov
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Mastering Vim

Mastering Vim

4.4 (9)
By: 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.
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Managing plugins

You have already installed quite a few plugins so far, and the number will only keep going up, especially as you try to solve problems that are specific to whatever it is you're working on. Manually keeping plugins up to date requires quite a bit of work, but luckily there are plugin management solutions out there!

Plugin management becomes even more important if you often change or switch machines and have the need to keep multiple plugins updated.

For more tips on keeping Vim synced between multiple machines, see Chapter 7, Making Vim Your Own.

The plugin management landscape is ever changing, and there's no substitute for good old research when choosing a plugin manager. This chapter covers a few plugin managers that I've used throughout the years, which will hopefully be enough for you to base your own research on.

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