Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Part 6Tools

“Do one thing, and do it well” is a principle of Unix philosophy. Vim provides wrapper commands that make it easy to call external programs such as make or grep. Some tasks require deeper integration with the text editor, so Vim provides native tools for spell checking and autocompletion and also provides a built-in :vimgrep command. In this part of the book we’ll study Vim’s toolbox and its interface for working with external tools.