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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

Advanced Editing and Navigation

Throughout this chapter, you will get a lot more comfortable using Vim in your day-to-day tasks. You will be working with a Python code base, which should provide you with a set of real-life scenarios for working with code. If you have a project of your own handy, you can choose to try out the lessons taught in this chapter using your own project files; however, you might find that not every scenario applies to your code base.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • A quick-and-dirty way of installing Vim plugins
  • Keeping your workspace organized when working with multiple or long files using buffers, windows, tabs, and folds
  • Navigating complex file trees without leaving Vim with Netrw, NERDTree, Vinegar, or CtrlP
  • Advanced navigation throughout a file, and covering more types of text objects: using grep and ack to look for things across...
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