Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

Some Final Thoughts on Vim for Writing Programs

We have looked at many powerful features in this chapter. Spend some time mastering these techniques and you’ll gain great productivity. If you’re a long-time vi user, you’ve already climbed one steep learning curve. The extra effort to learn Vim’s additional features is worth a second learning curve.

If you’re a programmer, we hope this chapter shows how much Vim offers for your programming tasks. We encourage you to try some of these features and even to extend Vim to your own needs. And maybe you will create extensions to give back to the Vim community. Now, go program!