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Making Vim Your Own
This chapter will cover Vim customization, and how to make Vim work for you. Everyone’s needs are different, and this chapter tries to help you develop your own style.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Color schemes and making your Vim look pretty
- Enhancing the status line with additional information
- GUI configuration specific to gVim
- Healthy habits when customizing your workflow
- Methodologies for organizing your .vimrc
Technical requirements
In this chapter, we will be covering ways to keep your .vimrc file organized. There’s no supporting code – you’re welcome to bring along your .vimrc file and try out the techniques suggested in this chapter.
In addition, we’ll be installing some packages with pip, so ...
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