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Mastering Vim

You're reading from  Mastering Vim

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341096
Pages 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ruslan Osipov Ruslan Osipov
Profile icon Ruslan Osipov

Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started 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

In this chapter, we've talked about the different ways of managing plugins. The new shiny thing is vim-plug, a lightweight plugin manager that can asynchronously install and update your plugins. Vundle, its predecessor, also allows you to search for and temporarily install new plugins. We've also learned how to manually work with plugins: Vim 8.0 introduced a way to load plugins without the need to manually alter runtimepath for each plugin. If you still use Vim below version 8, then Pathogen provides a way to automate some of the runtimepath manipulation.

We've looked at profiling Vim with a --startuptime flag and the :profile command.

We've revisited modes, covering every major mode: normal mode, command-line and ex modes, insert mode, visual and select modes, and terminal mode.

We've talked about remapping commands to make Vim truly yours. Different...

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