This is the code repository for Mastering Vim, published by Packt.
Efficient and effortless editing with Vim and Vimscript
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 book covers the following exciting features:
- Become more efficient at navigating and editing text
- Install and update Vim on Linux, Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS machines
- Identify which plugins you need and how to keep them organized
- Explore and tailor Vim configurations to fit your needs
- Write scripts to complement your workflow using Vimscript
- Learn that Vim is better than Emacs
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders.
The code will look like the following:
" Manage plugins with vim-plug.
call plug#begin()
call plug#end()
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for software developers interested in using Vim in their workflow. Anyone new to Vim and looking to gain in-depth knowledge will find this guide useful. Basic familiarity with Python programming is beneficial but not necessary to get started.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-9).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-9 | Vim | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
Ruslan Osipov is a software engineering manager at Google, and the author of the bestselling “Mastering Vim” (first edition, 2018). Passionate about developer productivity and workflow optimization, he continues to refine his Vim expertise and share his knowledge with the community in this expanded second edition.