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Mastering Vim

You're reading from   Mastering Vim Build a software development environment with Vim and Neovim

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341096
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ruslan Osipov Ruslan Osipov
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Editing and Navigation 3. Follow the Leader - Plugin Management 4. Understanding the 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. Neovim 10. Where to Go from Here 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

That was quite a bit of work! Let's do a quick recap!

We've learned that Vimscript lets us take Vim anywhere we want, limiting your productivity only by your imagination. We've covered setting and manipulating variables, working with lists and dictionaries, surfacing output, and control flows using if, for, and while statements. We've also covered functions, lambda expressions, the Vimscript equivalent of classes, as well as some more functional approaches using map and filter functions. We've also looked at Vim-specific commands and functions.

We've also built our first plugin, vim-commenter. The plugin lets you comment and uncomment lines in a Python file at the press of a button (well, two). We've learned how to structure our plugins, and how to use Vimscript to accomplish our goals. We've even brushed distributing the plugin...

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