[...]... proficient Vim user’s repertoire, yet without guidance it was years before I came to realize this on my own It is for this reason that I am excited about the publication of Practical Vim Because now when Vim novices ask me what’s the next step, I know what to tell them After all, Practical Vim even taught me a few things Tim Pope Vim core contributor April 2012 report erratum • discuss Read Me Practical Vim. .. Vim shreds text at the speed of thought Reading this book is your next step toward that end Practical Vim is a fast track to Vim mastery It won’t hold you by the hand, but beginners can find the prerequisite knowledge by running through the Vim tutor, an interactive lesson distributed with Vim. 1Practical Vim builds on this foundation by highlighting core concepts and demonstrating idiomatic usage Vim. .. here’s a quick test Try quitting Vim and then launching it with these options: ➾ $ vim -u NONE -N 1 http://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim/source_code report erratum • discuss On the Role of Vim Script • xxiii The -u NONE flag tells Vim not to source your vimrc on startup That way, your customizations won’t be applied and plugins will be disabled When Vim starts up without loading a vimrc file, it reverts to vi... Vim report erratum • discuss Read the Forgotten Manual • xxii Selecting Text in Visual Mode Visual mode allows us to select text in the buffer and then operate on the selection In this example, we use the it text object to select the contents of the tag: Keystrokes Buffer Contents {start} Practical Vim vit Practical Vim... not go into your vimrc file Instead, Practical Vim focuses on the core functionality of the editor—the stuff that’s always there, whether you’re working over SSH on a remote server or using a local instance of GVim, with plugins installed to add extra functionality Master Vim s core, and you’ll gain portable access to a text editing power tool How This Book Is Structured Practical Vim is a recipe book... examples in Practical Vim, the vim -u NONE -N trick should guarantee that you get the same experience as described, but there are a couple of exceptions Some of Vim s built-in features are implemented with Vim script, which means that they will only work when plugins are enabled This file contains the absolute minimum configuration that is required to activate Vim s built-in plugins: essential .vim set... filetype plugin on When launching Vim, you can use this file instead of your vimrc by running the following: ➾ $ vim -u code/essential .vim You’ll have to adjust the code/essential .vim path accordingly With Vim s built-in plugins enabled, you’ll be able to use features such as netrw (Tip 43, on page 98) and omni-completion (Tip 117, on page 285), as well as many others I consider Vim s factory settings to mean... functionality can be extended The implementation of visualstar .vim and Qargs .vim is presented inline without explanation This should give you an idea of what Vim script looks like and what you can accomplish with it If it piques your interest, then so much the better On Vim Versions All examples in Practical Vim were tested on the latest version of Vim, which was 7.3 at the time of writing That said, most... anything less than Vim s huge feature set! Vim in the Terminal or Vim with a GUI? You Choose! Traditionally, Vim runs inside of the terminal, with no graphical user interface (GUI) We could say instead that Vim has a TUI: a textual user interface If you spend most of your day at the command line, this will feel natural If you’re accustomed to using a GUI-based text editor, then GVim (or MacVim on OS X) will... helps you think like a Vim master You can understand my skepticism, then, when I found out Practical Vim was using a tips format How could a couple of hundred tips accomplish what took me thousands? A few pages in I realized my definition of “tip” was narrowminded In contrast to the problem/solution pattern I had expected, Practical Vim tips teach lessons in thinking like a proficient Vim user In a sense, . I knew Vim,
but Practical Vim has massively improved my code-wrangling productivity.
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Xem thêm: Tài liệu Practical Vim pdf, Tài liệu Practical Vim pdf, Tip 1. Meet the Dot Command, Tip 3. Take One Step Back, Then Three Forward, Tip 6. Meet the Dot Formula, Tip 7. Pause with Your Brush Off the Page, Tip 11. Don't Count If You Can Repeat, Tip 19. Overwrite Existing Text with Replace Mode, Tip 27. Meet Vim's Command Line, Tip 28. Execute a Command on One or More Consecutive Lines, Tip 34. Recall Commands from History, Tip 35. Run Commands in the Shell, Tip 36. Track Open Files with the Buffer List, Tip 37. Group Buffers into a Collection with the Argument List, Tip 39. Divide Your Workspace into Split Windows, Tip 40. Organize Your Window Layouts with Tab Pages, Tip 41. Open a File by Its Filepath Using ‘:edit’, Tip 43. Explore the File System with netrw, Tip 45. Save a File as the Super User, Tip 47. Distinguish Between Real Lines and Display Lines, Tip 51. Trace Your Selection with Precision Text Objects, Tip 54. Jump Between Matching Parentheses, Tip 57. Jump to the Filename Under the Cursor, Tip 58. Snap Between Files Using Global Marks, Tip 59. Delete, Yank, and Put with Vim's Unnamed Register, Tip 62. Paste from a Register, Tip 63. Interact with the System Clipboard, Tip 64. Record and Execute a Macro, Tip 67. Repeat a Change on Contiguous Lines, Tip 69. Act Upon a Collection of Files, Tip 71. Edit the Contents of a Macro, Tip 73. Use the v Pattern Switch for Regex Searches, Tip 77. Stake the Boundaries of a Match, Tip 79. Meet the Search Command, Tip 84. Operate on a Complete Search Match, Tip 85. Create Complex Patterns by Iterating upon Search History, Tip 86. Search for the Current Visual Selection, Tip 88. Find and Replace Every Match in a File, Tip 92. Repeat the Previous Substitute Command, Tip 95. Swap Two or More Words, Tip 96. Find and Replace Across Multiple Files, Tip 100. Alphabetize the Properties of Each Rule in a CSS File, Tip 103. Navigate Keyword Definitions with Vim's Tag Navigation Commands, Tip 105. Browse the Quickfix List, Tip 107. Customize the External Compiler, Tip 114. Autocomplete Words from the Dictionary, Tip 121. Fix Spelling Errors from Insert Mode, A1. Customize Vim to Suit Your Preferences