From personalizing Vim to optimizations productivity: Recipe to make life easier for experienced Vim users Create, install, and use Vim scriptsPersonalize Optimize your work-area Vim editor to be faster and more responsive In Detail Each chapter of this book deal with different aspects, and provides recipes for easy to use hacks to customize and simplify your Vim experience. After the introduction includes a decrease Vim and relatives of the vi editor, the author describes the basic changes you can make on view editor Vim. Further chapters cover improved navigation through files and buffers in Vim; speed up your work with templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers, and formatting text and code, including using an external script format. A comprehensive final chapter covers everything about using Vim scripts and scripting to extend the functionality. Vim stands for Vi Improved and is the editor of choice for programmers looking, highly configurable stable, open source, multi-platform text editor. Vim 7.0, the book was written, including spell-checking, code completion, document tabs, row and column highlighting, undo branches, and more. What you will learn from this book? Chapter 1 introduces Vim and little-known relatives; history and its relation with vi briefly described. Chapter 2 introduces how to make Vim editor is better for you to modify to your individual needs. This chapter introduces the basics of scripting, how to use and install / uninstall script, script debugging, and more. Appendix A has a list of games that have been implemented with Vim scripting, but also provides an overview of chat and mail scripts and has a section which uses Vim as an IDE. Appendix B shows how to keep the Vim configuration files are well organized and how to maintain Vim configuration on the computer by storing copies online. Approach This is a cookbook packed with ready to use hacks that give solutions to some of the most common problems users of the Vim editor meetings during their daily use. The minimum version required for each hack is clearly shown Vim. Who is this book written for? Anyone who has worked with Vim and wants to get more out of the legendary text editor can use the hacks from this book.