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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

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 any more. If you don't know what something does, you're probably better off deleting 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'll never know what useful feature you'll discover!

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