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Getting Started
Welcome to Mastering Vim, a book that will teach you how to get good with Vim, its plugins, and its ideological successors!
This chapter will establish a foundation for working with Vim. Every tool is built with a particular usage philosophy in mind, and Vim is no exception. Vim introduces a different way of working with text compared to what most people are used to these days. This chapter focuses on highlighting these differences and establishing a set of healthy editing habits. It will let you approach Vim with a Vim-friendly frame of mind and will ensure you’re using the right tools for the job. To make examples concrete, we will be using Vim to create a small Python application throughout this chapter.
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