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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

Working with version control

This section will illustrate working with version control systems (often abbreviated to VCS) by using Git as an example.

VCS landscape may change

Git seems to be the most popular version control system at the time of writing this book. Suggestions in this section can be applied to whichever version control system you choose to work with (or, more likely, whichever VCS you’re locked into).

Modern development is nearly impossible without version control, and if you’re working with code, it’s more than likely you’ll have to deal with it. This section gives you a refresher on how to use one of the most popular version control systems today—Git. We then cover how to work with Git from within Vim to make Git commands more robust and interactive.

A quick-and-dirty version control and Git introduction

You can safely skip this section if you’re comfortable with Git.

Git lets you track a history of changes...

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