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Personalizing Vim

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 26, 2010

[ Thanks to rahulb
for this link. ]

“In this article,by Kim Schulz, author of Hacking Vim
7.2, we will introduce a list of recipes that will help you
personalize Vim in such a way that it becomes your personal
favorite.

You will find recipes for the following personalization
tasks:

* Changing the fonts
* Changing the color scheme
* Personal highlighting
* A more informative status line
* Toggle menu and toolbar
* Adding your own menu and toolbar buttons
* Work area personalization”

Complete
Story

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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