Mastering Vim - Second Edition

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Where to Go from Here

Welcome to the last chapter of mastering Vim. You have now begun your journey into the wonderful world of Vim.

This book concludes with a few final thoughts:

• Healthy text editing habits, pulled from Bram Moolenaar’s presentation
• Taking modal interfaces outside of Vim and into other IDEs, web browsers, and everywhere else
• Some of the Vim communities and recommended reading

Seven habits of effective text editing

This section is a condensed version of Bram Moolenaar’s article from 2000 and a subsequent presentation from 2007. It’s good; give it a read on Bram’s website: https://moolenaar.net/habits.html. In case you decide to skip reading the whole thing, there follows a very high-level summary.

Since developers spend ...