July 2008
Beginner
492 pages
16h
English
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Resources
We hope we’ve piqued enough interest and provided enough information to get you started with Vim scripts. An entire book could be devoted to the subject of Vim scripting. Luckily, there are other resources to turn to for help.
A good starting point is to go to the source of Vim itself and visit the pages specifically dedicated to scripting: http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php. Here you will find over 2,000 scripts available for download. The entire body of work is searchable and you are invited to participate by rating scripts and even contributing your own.
We also remind you that the built-in Vim help is invaluable. The most productive help topics we recommend are:
help autocmd help scripts help variables help functions help usr_41.txt
And don’t forget the myriad Vim scripts in the Vim runtime
directories. All of the files with the suffix .vim are
scripts, and these provide an excellent and fertile playground for
learning how to code by example.
Go play. It’s the best way to learn.
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