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Hacking VIM: A Cookbook to Get the Most out of the Latest by Kim Schulz

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By Kim Schulz

From personalizing Vim to productiveness optimizations: Recipes to make existence more straightforward for skilled Vim clients

  • Create, set up, and use Vim scripts
  • Personalize your work-area
  • Optimize your Vim editor to be speedier and extra responsive

In element

Each bankruptcy of this booklet offers with a special point, and gives recipes for easy-to-use hacks to customise and simplify your Vim event. After an creation overlaying the derivation of Vim and its kin from the vi editor, the writer explains uncomplicated adjustments so you might make to the looks of the Vim editor. additional chapters hide superior navigation via documents and buffers in Vim; rushing up your paintings with templates, auto-completion, folding, classes, and registers; and formatting textual content and code, together with utilizing exterior formatting scripts. the ultimate accomplished bankruptcy covers every little thing approximately utilizing Vim scripts and scripting to increase functionality.

Vim stands for Vi more suitable and is the editor of selection for programmers searching for a hugely configurable, sturdy, open-source, multi-platform textual content editor. it truly is incorporated with virtually each Linux distribution because the common textual content editor, and will be used to paintings with resource code from any language. an incredible benefit of utilizing Vim is that it may be generally personalized; you could regulate the elemental interface, outline customized key mappings, enforce macros, and make contact with exterior or user-defined scripts. Vim has its personal scripting language that enables for plug-in like extensions to permit IDE habit, syntax scripts and highlighting, colour schemes, topics, and software scripts that could upload quite a lot of good points and performance. Vim 7.0, for which this booklet is written, contains spell-checking, code of completion, record tabs, present line and column highlighting, undo branches, and more.

What you are going to study from this ebook?

Chapter 1 introduces Vim and some famous relations; their historical past and relation to vi is in brief defined. Chapter 2 introduces how you can make Vim a greater editor for you by means of enhancing it on your own wishes. It exhibits us methods of editing fonts, the colour scheme, the prestige line, menus, and toolbar. Chapter three introduces a few of the ways that Vim is helping us to navigate via records simply. It explains another approach for enhancing navigation via records and buffers in Vim. Chapter four introduces you to beneficial properties in Vim. It describes the best way to use templates, auto-completion, folding, periods, and registers. Chapter five introduces easy tips to structure textual content and code. It additionally discusses how exterior instruments can be utilized to offer Vim simply that additional area it has to be the best editor. Chapter 6 is mainly if you are looking to the best way to expand Vim with scripts. The bankruptcy introduces scripting fundamentals, tips on how to use and install/uninstall scripts, debugging scripts, and plenty extra. Appendix A has an inventory of video games which were carried out with Vim scripting; it additionally presents an outline of chat and mail scripts and has a piece on utilizing Vim as an IDE. Appendix B indicates easy methods to hold your Vim configuration documents good equipped and the way to preserve your Vim configuration throughout pcs through storing a duplicate of it on-line.

Approach

This is a cookbook filled with ready-to-use hacks that provide recommendations for a few of the most typical difficulties clients of the Vim editor come across in the course of their day-by-day use. every one recipe follows a scientific process with a self-contained description of the duty it covers, the way to use it, and what you achieve by utilizing it. The reader can learn any of the hacks during this booklet with no need to learn any of the opposite hacks-where worthy they contain cross-references to different appropriate hacks. The minimal model of Vim required for every hack is obviously indicated.

Who this booklet is written for?

Anyone who has labored with Vim and needs to get extra out of this mythical textual content editor can use the hacks from this ebook. It doesn't conceal the elemental initiatives of utilizing the editor yet as an alternative specializes in making lifestyles more uncomplicated for more matured Vim users.

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47 ] Personalizing Vim If you need help with your spelling, then Vim has methods for helping you there. We have looked at how to make the spell checker in Vim follow your preferred language, so that you will never again misspell a word. If using spell-checking is not enough to correct your errors, then maybe the use of abbreviations can help you. On the other hand, abbreviations also do a great job minimizing the number of characters to write if you use the same text over and over again. Finally, we have looked at how we can change the key bindings in Vim in such a way that it will react on keyboard shortcuts you are used to from other editors.

While this is a purely cosmetic functionality, the '&' in the menu path is a more functional extension. By adding an '&' in front of one of the letters in the last part of the menu path, you can define a keyboard shortcut for an item. This makes it easy to navigate to that particular item in the menu and execute it. [ 28 ] Chapter 2 Let's say that you want to go to the next tab by executing the Tabs > Next menu item; now you can do so by simply pressing Alt-t n. This is Alt-t for opening Tabs, and n to call the Next item—n because the '&' is in front of the N in Next.

The command that sets how the status line should look is simply called: :set statusline format where format is a printf-like string (known from C programming) that describes how the status line should look. If you look in the Vim help system by typing :help 'statusline', you will see that the status line can contain a wide variety of pieces of information, some more useful in your daily work than others. 2B]\ [POS=%04l,%04v][%p%%]\ [LEN=%L] I have added a '[ ]' around each of the pieces of information, so that it is easier to distinguish them from each other.

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