An IDE Called Vim bridges the gap between using Vim as a text editor and using it as a full fledged code editor. It explores most of the functionality already present in Vim so you can use it on a day to day basis. Forget about struggling with auto-completion and file finding. This book has it all! 

An IDE Called Vim

Preface

Pre-Basics

Basics

When we’re talking about Vim, one of the main topics that always seem to come to the table is the ability to be customized. Vim is highly customizable. It is so customizable that it is used by writers, programmers, and system administrators. Different people with very distinct needs.

The .vimrc file

Up until this point we’ve been looking at the basics of Vim, how can we use it and how can we make it more user-friendly. Our goal, since the beginning of this book, was to reach this point. Now we have the tools needed to start turning our basic Vim installation into an IDE.

Using Vim as an IDE

Up until now, we’ve been only talking about features that ship with Vim. Except for the integration with ctags, we were able to get all with just the functionality provided by Vim or the plugins that ship bundled with it.

Plugins

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. 

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