Mastering Vim

Conditional statements

Conditional statements are performed using if statements:

if g:animal_kind == 'cat'  echo g:animal_name . ' is a cat'elseif g:animal_kind == 'dog'  echo g:animal_name . ' is a dog'else  echo g:animal_name . ' is something else'endif

You can also make this operation inline:

echo g:animal_name . (g:is_cat ? ' is a cat' : ' is something else')

Vim supports all of the logical operators you're used to from other languages:

• && - and
• || - or
• ! - not

For example, you can do this:

if !(g:is_cat || g:is_dog)  echo g:animal_name . ' is something else'endif

In the previous example, you'll get to g:animal_name . ' is something else' only if neither g:is_cat or g:is_dog are true.

This can also be written with the && operator:

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