Mastering Vim, Second Edition
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook; 2nd edition (July 31, 2024)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1835081878
- ISBN-13: 978-1835081877
eBook Description:
Mastering Vim, Second Edition: Efficient and effortless editing with Vim and Vimscript. Build applications with advanced movement, text operations, and IDE capabilities in Vim 9.0 and Neovim.
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, 2nd Edition, 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 Mastering Vim, 2nd 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.
- 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
By the end of this Mastering Vim, Second Edition book, you’ll be well-versed in Vim and have the skills you need to build a complete application using this popular text editor.
