Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
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Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
About the Book
LVSTHW is a book about customizing the Vim editor. It's freely available online, but you can buy an ebook copy here.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prerequisites
- Creating a Vimrc File
- 1 Echoing Messages
- 1.1 Persistent Echoing
- 1.2 Comments
- 1.3 Exercises
- 2 Setting Options
- 2.1 Boolean Options
- 2.2 Toggling Boolean Options
- 2.3 Checking Options
- 2.4 Options with Values
- 2.5 Setting Multiple Options at Once
- 2.6 Exercises
- 3 Basic Mapping
- 3.1 Special Characters
- 3.2 Commenting
- 3.3 Exercises
- 4 Modal Mapping
- 4.1 Muscle Memory
- 4.2 Insert Mode
- 4.3 Exercises
- 5 Strict Mapping
- 5.1 Recursion
- 5.2 Side Effects
- 5.3 Nonrecursive Mapping
- 5.4 Exercises
- 6 Leaders
- 6.1 Mapping Key Sequences
- 6.2 Leader
- 6.3 Local Leader
- 6.4 Exercises
- 7 Editing Your Vimrc
- 7.1 Editing Mapping
- 7.2 Sourcing Mapping
- 7.3 Exercises
- 8 Abbreviations
- 8.1 Keyword Characters
- 8.2 More Abbreviations
- 8.3 Why Not Use Mappings?
- 8.4 Exercises
- 9 More Mappings
- 9.1 A More Complicated Mapping
- 9.2 Exercises
- 10 Training Your Fingers
- 10.1 Learning the Map
- 10.2 Exercises
- 11 Buffer-Local Options and Mappings
- 11.1 Mappings
- 11.2 Local Leader
- 11.3 Settings
- 11.4 Shadowing
- 11.5 Exercises
- 12 Autocommands
- 12.1 Autocommand Structure
- 12.2 Another Example
- 12.3 Multiple Events
- 12.4 FileType Events
- 12.5 Exercises
- 13 Buffer-Local Abbreviations
- 13.1 Autocommands and Abbreviations
- 13.2 Exercises
- 14 Autocommand Groups
- 14.1 The Problem
- 14.2 Grouping Autocommands
- 14.3 Clearing Groups
- 14.4 Using Autocommands in Your Vimrc
- 14.5 Exercises
- 15 Operator-Pending Mappings
- 15.1 Movement Mappings
- 15.2 Changing the Start
- 15.3 General Rules
- 15.4 Exercises
- 16 More Operator-Pending Mappings
- 16.1 Normal
- 16.2 Execute
- 16.3 Results
- 16.4 Exercises
- 17 Status Lines
- 17.1 Width and Padding
- 17.2 General Format
- 17.3 Splitting
- 17.4 Exercises
- 18 Responsible Coding
- 18.1 Commenting
- 18.2 Grouping
- 18.3 Short Names
- 18.4 Exercises
- 19 Variables
- 19.1 Options as Variables
- 19.2 Local Options
- 19.3 Registers as Variables
- 19.4 Exercises
- 20 Variable Scoping
- 20.1 Exercises
- 21 Conditionals
- 21.1 Multiple-Line Statements
- 21.2 Basic If
- 21.3 Else and Elseif
- 21.4 Exercises
- 22 Comparisons
- 22.1 Case Sensitivity
- 22.2 Code Defensively
- 22.3 Exercises
- 23 Functions
- 23.1 Calling Functions
- 23.2 Implicit Returning
- 23.3 Exercises
- 24 Function Arguments
- 24.1 Varargs
- 24.2 Assignment
- 24.3 Exercises
- 25 Numbers
- 25.1 Number Formats
- 25.2 Float Formats
- 25.3 Coercion
- 25.4 Division
- 25.5 Exercises
- 26 Strings
- 26.1 Concatenation
- 26.2 Special Characters
- 26.3 Literal Strings
- 26.4 Truthiness
- 26.5 Exercises
- 27 String Functions
- 27.1 Length
- 27.2 Splitting
- 27.3 Joining
- 27.4 Lower and Upper Case
- 27.5 Exercises
- 28 Execute
- 28.1 Basic Execution
- 28.2 Is Execute Dangerous?
- 28.3 Exercises
- 29 Normal
- 29.1 Avoiding Mappings
- 29.2 Special Characters
- 29.3 Exercises
- 29.4 Extra Credit
- 30 Execute Normal!
- 30.1 Exercises
- 31 Basic Regular Expressions
- 31.1 Highlighting
- 31.2 Searching
- 31.3 Magic
- 31.4 Literal Strings
- 31.5 Very Magic
- 31.6 Exercises
- 32 Case Study: Grep Operator, Part One
- 32.1 Grep
- 32.2 Usage
- 32.3 A Preliminary Sketch
- 32.4 The Search Term
- 32.5 Escaping Shell Command Arguments
- 32.6 Cleanup
- 32.7 Exercises
- 33 Case Study: Grep Operator, Part Two
- 33.1 Create a File
- 33.2 Skeleton
- 33.3 Visual Mode
- 33.4 Motion Types
- 33.5 Copying the Text
- 33.6 Escaping the Search Term
- 33.7 Running Grep
- 33.8 Exercises
- 34 Case Study: Grep Operator, Part Three
- 34.1 Saving Registers
- 34.2 Namespacing
- 34.3 Exercises
- 35 Lists
- 35.1 Indexing
- 35.2 Slicing
- 35.3 Concatenation
- 35.4 List Functions
- 35.5 Exercises
- 36 Looping
- 36.1 For Loops
- 36.2 While Loops
- 36.3 Exercises
- 37 Dictionaries
- 37.1 Indexing
- 37.2 Assigning and Adding
- 37.3 Removing Entries
- 37.4 Dictionary Functions
- 37.5 Exercises
- 38 Toggling
- 38.1 Toggling Options
- 38.2 Toggling Other Things
- 38.3 Improvements
- 38.4 Restoring Windows/Buffers
- 38.5 Exercises
- 39 Functional Programming
- 39.1 Immutable Data Structures
- 39.2 Functions as Variables
- 39.3 Higher-Order Functions
- 39.4 Performance
- 39.5 Exercises
- 40 Paths
- 40.1 Absolute Paths
- 40.2 Listing Files
- 40.3 Exercises
- 41 Creating a Full Plugin
- 41.1 Potion
- 41.2 Exercises
- 42 Plugin Layout in the Dark Ages
- 42.1 Basic Layout
- 42.2 ~/.vim/colors/
- 42.3 ~/.vim/plugin/
- 42.4 ~/.vim/ftdetect/
- 42.5 ~/.vim/ftplugin/
- 42.6 ~/.vim/indent/
- 42.7 ~/.vim/compiler/
- 42.8 ~/.vim/after/
- 42.9 ~/.vim/autoload/
- 42.10 ~/.vim/doc/
- 42.11 Exercises
- 43 A New Hope: Plugin Layout with Pathogen
- 43.1 Runtimepath
- 43.2 Pathogen
- 43.3 Being Pathogen-Compatible
- 43.4 Exercises
- 44 Detecting Filetypes
- 44.1 Detecting Potion Files
- 44.2 Exercises
- 45 Basic Syntax Highlighting
- 45.1 Highlighting Keywords
- 45.2 Highlighting Functions
- 45.3 Exercises
- 46 Advanced Syntax Highlighting
- 46.1 Highlighting Comments
- 46.2 Highlighting Operators
- 46.3 Exercises
- 47 Even More Advanced Syntax Highlighting
- 47.1 Highlighting Strings
- 47.2 Exercises
- 48 Basic Folding
- 48.1 Types of Folding
- 48.2 Potion Folding
- 48.3 Exercises
- 49 Advanced Folding
- 49.1 Folding Theory
- 49.2 First: Make a Plan
- 49.3 Getting Started
- 49.4 Expr Folding
- 49.5 Blank Lines
- 49.6 Special Foldlevels
- 49.7 An Indentation Level Helper
- 49.8 One More Helper
- 49.9 Finishing the Fold Function
- 49.10 Review
- 49.11 Exercises
- 50 Section Movement Theory
- 50.1 Nroff Files
- 50.2 Braces
- 50.3 Exercises
- 51 Potion Section Movement
- 51.1 Custom Mappings
- 51.2 Using a Function
- 51.3 Base Movement
- 51.4 Top Level Text Sections
- 51.5 Search Flags
- 51.6 Function Definitions
- 51.7 Visual Mode
- 51.8 Why Bother?
- 51.9 Exercises
- 52 External Commands
- 52.1 Compiling
- 52.2 Bang!
- 52.3 Displaying Bytecode
- 52.4 system()
- 52.5 Scratch Splits
- 52.6 Exercises
- 52.7 Extra Credit
- 52.8 More Extra Credit
- 53 Autoloading
- 53.1 How Autoload Works
- 53.2 Experimenting
- 53.3 What to Autoload
- 53.4 Adding Autoloading to the Potion Plugin
- 53.5 Exercises
- 54 Documentation
- 54.1 How Documentation Works
- 54.2 Help Header
- 54.3 What to Document
- 54.4 Table of Contents
- 54.5 Sections
- 54.6 Examples
- 54.7 Write!
- 54.8 Exercises
- 55 Distribution
- 55.1 Hosting
- 55.2 Documentation
- 55.3 Publicity
- 55.4 Exercises
- 56 What Now?
- 56.1 Color Schemes
- 56.2 The Command Command
- 56.3 runtimepath
- 56.4 Omnicomplete
- 56.5 Compiler Support
- 56.6 Other Languages
- 56.7 Vim’s Documentation
- 56.8 Exercises
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