Mastering Vim - Second Edition

Vim is a ubiquitous text editor that can be used for many text editing tasks, including working with programming languages. It has an extensive plugin system and integrates with many tools, and offers an extensible and customizable development environment for programmers, making it one of the most popular text editors in the world. This comprehensive guide to Vim will enable you to become a more efficient developer. You’ll start by learning the fundamentals, advanced movement, and text operations. As you progress, you’ll learn how Vim can be used as an IDE. This book also guides you through refactoring, debugging, building, testing, version control, plugins, and Vimscript. The second edition comes packed with fully revamped examples that are not only engaging, but also easy to understand. It features drawings and diagrams to assist with visualizing the concepts covered in the book and incorporates errata. The second edition also covers Vim 9, including updated installation and troubleshooting instructions, and a new chapter covering Vim9 script. By the end of this Vim book, you’ll be well-versed with Vim and have the skills you need to build a complete application using this popular text editor.