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Mastering Vim

You're reading from   Mastering Vim Efficient and effortless editing with Vim and Vimscript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835081877
Length 300 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ruslan Osipov Ruslan Osipov
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Advanced Editing and Navigation 3. Chapter 3: Follow the Leader Plugin Management 4. Chapter 4: Understanding Structured Text 5. Chapter 5: Build, Test, and Execute 6. Chapter 6: Refactoring Code with Regex and Macros 7. Chapter 7: Making Vim Your Own 8. Chapter 8: Transcending the Mundane with Vimscript 9. Chapter 9: Where to Go from Here 10. Index

Healthy Vim customization habits

As you continue to work with Vim, you will find yourself making a lot of configuration changes. It’s important to take time to go back, reflect, and make sure your .vimrc doesn’t become a pile of unneeded aliases, functions, and plugins.

Once in a while, take the time to go back into your .vimrc and clean up unnecessary functions and plugins, or remove key bindings you don’t use anymore. If you don’t know what something does, you’re probably better off removing it, since you won’t get much use out of configurations you don’t understand.

It’s also helpful to take some time to read about the options you have set and plugins you have installed with the built-in :help command—you never know what useful feature you’ll discover!

Optimizing your workflow

Everyone’s workflow is unique, and no two people use Vim the same way. It’s useful to find ways to complement...

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