Modern Vim : craft your development environment with Vim 8 and Neovim / Drew Neil ; edited by Katharine Dvorak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neil, Drew, author.

Contributor:

Dvorak, Katharine, editor.

Series:

Pragmatic programmers.

The Pragmatic Programmers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

UNIX (Computer file).

Vim.

Text editors (Computer programs).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Raleigh, North Carolina : The Pragmatic Bookshelf, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Turn Vim into a full-blown development environment using Vim 8's new features and this sequel to the beloved bestseller Practical Vim . Integrate your editor with tools for building, testing, linting, indexing, and searching your codebase. Discover the future of Vim with Neovim: a fork of Vim that includes a built-in terminal emulator that will transform your workflow. Whether you choose to switch to Neovim or stick with Vim 8, you'll be a better developer. A serious tool for programmers and web developers, no other text editor comes close to Vim for speed and efficiency. Make Vim the centerpiece of a Unix-based IDE as you discover new ways to work with Vim 8 and Neovim in more than 20 hands-on tips. Execute tasks asynchronously, allowing you to continue in Vim while linting, grepping, building a project, or running a test suite. Install plugins to be loaded on startup - or on-demand when you need them - with Vim 8's new package support. Save and restore sessions, enabling you to quit Vim and restart again while preserving your window layout and undo history. Use Neovim as a drop-in replacement for Vim - it supports all of the features Vim 8 offers and more, including an integrated terminal that lets you quickly perform interactive commands. And if you enjoy using tmux and Vim together, you'll love Neovim's terminal emulator, which lets you run an interactive shell in a buffer. The terminal buffers fit naturally with Vim's split windows, and you can use Normal mode commands to scroll, search, copy, and paste. On top of all that: Neovim's terminal buffers are scriptable. With Vim at the core of your development environment, you'll become a faster and more efficient developer. What You Need: You'll need a Unix-based environment and an up-to-date release of Vim (8.0 or newer). For the tips about running a terminal emulator, you'll need to install Neovim.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

How This Book Is Structured

A Note on Vim Versions

Other Software Requirements

Notation for Simulating Vim on the Page

Minimal Configuration

Using Factory Settings

Downloading the Examples

1. Get Modern Vim

Tip 1. Installing Vim 8

Tip 2. Switching to Neovim

Tip 3. Enabling Python Support in Neovim

2. Installing Plugins

Tip 4. Understanding Scripts, Plugins, and Packages

Tip 5. Installing Plugins to Your Package

Tip 6. Managing Plugins with minpac

3. Opening Files

Tip 7. Finding Files Using Fuzzy Path Matching

Tip 8. Finding Files Semantically

Tip 9. Jumping to an Alternate File

4. Working with the Quickfix List

Tip 10. Running a Build and Navigating Failures

Tip 11. Switching Compilers

Tip 12. Linting the Current File

Tip 13. Searching Files with Grep-Alikes

Tip 14. Running Tests and Browsing Failures

5. Neovim's Built-In Terminal Emulator

Tip 15. Grokking Terminal Mode

Tip 16. Running Programs in a Terminal Buffer

Tip 17. Managing Windows That Contain Terminal Buffers

Tip 18. Using Normal Mode Commands in a Terminal Buffer

Tip 19. Sending Commands to a Terminal Buffer

Tip 20. Applying Customizations to Your Shell in a Terminal Buffer

Tip 21. Avoiding Nested Neovim Instances

Tip 22. Using an Existing nvim Instance as the Preferred Editor

6. Sessions

Tip 23. Saving and Restoring Sessions

Tip 24. Making Undo Persist Between Sessions

Tip 25. Restarting Terminal Processes When Resuming a Session

7. Configuring Vim

Tip 26. Using Autocommands to Respond to Events

Tip 27. Respecting Project Conventions

Tip 28. Setting Buffer-Local Configuration Per Project

A1. What's Next for Modern Vim?

Integrating with the Language Server Protocol

What's Next for Vim 8.

What's Next for Neovim

Bibliography

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Notes:

"Version: P1.0 (May 2018)."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781680506006

1680506005

9781680506020

1680506021

OCLC:

1041187708