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Customizing Your Vim for work area

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 3, 2010

[ Thanks to rahulb
for this link. ]

“Vim is one of the most powerful open source editors
used by programmers and system administrators around the world.
While Vim itself is inherently a powerful editor, personalizing it
to suit your needs can be a daunting task. However, it is possible
to do so with this book.

“In this article by Kim Schulz, author of Hacking Vim 7.2, we
will cover:

* Adding a more visual color
* Adding line numbers
* Spell checking your language
* adding helpful tool tips
* modifying key bindings”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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