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Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim
Unleash the power of Vim in Visual Studio Code, boost your productivity and become an even more awesome developer.
Visual Studio Code is superb. It offers an unparalleled user experience with great support for many languages and development ecosystems. It comes with great defaults and is super easy to use and to get started with.
Vim is awesome. Its modal nature and text editing features make it unique amongst other editors. Vim offers a complete different level of text editing proficiency, speed and accuracy from anything else out there.
The combination of both couldn’t be anything less that amazingly superbsome (yep, I just did that).
In the upcoming days, and as you read these pages and practice, you will boost your Visual Studio editing skills incredibly. By combining the strengths of Vim and Visual Studio Code, you will be able to make the interface between your brain and the computer ever so thin, making your thoughts seamlessly materialize into code.
Here is what we’re going to cover in this book:
* What is Vim? And Why Use Vim in VSCode?
* How to Install Vim in VSCode?
* Basic Surviving Skills in Vim
* Moving Blazingly Fast with Core Vim Motions
* Editing at The Speed of Thought With Vim Operators and Motions
* Vim’s Secret Language
* Inserting Text a la Vim
* Selecting Text in Visual Mode
* Copying and Pasting Taking Advantage of Registers
* Surrounding Things with Vim Surround
* Moving Even Faster with the Sneak and EasyMotion Plugins
* Creating Custom Shortcuts to Make You More Effective
* Supercharging Multiple Cursors With Vim
* Creating Reusable Editing Units With Macros
* Integrating VSCode with Neovim For Maximum Awesomeness
At the end of this book you’ll be capable of fine grained text manipulations and powerful text transformations that were previously unreachable to you. And over time, and as you practice and get comfortable with the different Vim commands, you will become faster and more proficient at editing than you were ever before.
Visual Studio Code is superb. It offers an unparalleled user experience with great support for many languages and development ecosystems. It comes with great defaults and is super easy to use and to get started with.
Vim is awesome. Its modal nature and text editing features make it unique amongst other editors. Vim offers a complete different level of text editing proficiency, speed and accuracy from anything else out there.
The combination of both couldn’t be anything less that amazingly superbsome (yep, I just did that).
In the upcoming days, and as you read these pages and practice, you will boost your Visual Studio editing skills incredibly. By combining the strengths of Vim and Visual Studio Code, you will be able to make the interface between your brain and the computer ever so thin, making your thoughts seamlessly materialize into code.
Here is what we’re going to cover in this book:
* What is Vim? And Why Use Vim in VSCode?
* How to Install Vim in VSCode?
* Basic Surviving Skills in Vim
* Moving Blazingly Fast with Core Vim Motions
* Editing at The Speed of Thought With Vim Operators and Motions
* Vim’s Secret Language
* Inserting Text a la Vim
* Selecting Text in Visual Mode
* Copying and Pasting Taking Advantage of Registers
* Surrounding Things with Vim Surround
* Moving Even Faster with the Sneak and EasyMotion Plugins
* Creating Custom Shortcuts to Make You More Effective
* Supercharging Multiple Cursors With Vim
* Creating Reusable Editing Units With Macros
* Integrating VSCode with Neovim For Maximum Awesomeness
At the end of this book you’ll be capable of fine grained text manipulations and powerful text transformations that were previously unreachable to you. And over time, and as you practice and get comfortable with the different Vim commands, you will become faster and more proficient at editing than you were ever before.
117 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 3, 2019
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May 8, 2022
You'll definitely pick up a few things even if you've been using Vim for a long time. Few VSCodeVim specific operators, handy tips, dealing with configuration etc
September 3, 2023
Thanks to the book, I could finally exit Vim!
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