The first covers basic Vim commands that you can use in your ~/.vimrc file to customize Vim quickly and easily. The second looks more deeply at Vimscript as a programming language, covering things like variables, comparisons, and functions. The third walks through the creation of a sample plugin intended for distribution to other Vim users.

You can either put this in a script (script.vim) and run it (:source script.vim), or you can type the commands individually in normal mode as :let and :echo. function! SuperTab() let l:part = …

Learn Vim (the Smart Way) is a guide to learn the good parts of Vim. There are many places to learn Vim: the vimtutor is a great place to start and the help manual has all the references you will ever need. However, the average user needs something …

Where X=Vimscript Get the code: learnvimscript.vim " ############## " Introduction " ############## " " Vim script (also called VimL) is the subset of Vim's ex-commands which " supplies a number of features one would expect from a scripting language, " such as values, variables, functions or loops.

Like most programming languages, Vimscript has functions. Let's take a look at how to create them, and then talk about some of their quirks. Run the following command:

From these short examples it may seem like Vimscript is dynamically typed. That's not the case, but we'll talk more about that later. Options as Variables. You can read and set options as variables by using a special syntax. Run the following commands::set textwidth=80 :echo &textwidth. Vim will display 80. Using an ampersand in front of a name ...

Learn Vim (the Smart Way) is a guide to learn the good parts of Vim. This project was inspired by Steve Losh' Learn Vimscript the Hard Way. I thought it would be neat to do a broader, albeit less deep, overview of Vim + Vimscript in 2025. So here it is! This guide consists of three parts:

2017年9月19日 · Functions in vimscript are capable of most things you would expect: they can operate on parameters, can produce side effects, and can return values. Vimscript even supports writing higher-order functions.

2012年5月1日 · This article is intended so that you can learn the basics of vimscript as quickly as possible. You might even be able to consider this to be a cheat sheet. You should probably already know how to program before reading this. Vim’s built in documentation is excellent. Try :h <searchterm> to read more inside Vim.

In the previous chapters, you have seen Vimscript native functions (len(), filter(), map(), etc.) and custom functions in action. In this chapter, you will go deeper to learn how functions work.