How to Read This Book
We start with Chapter 1, The Lay of the Land, where you learn the basics of the VimL language. In Chapter 2, A Real Live Plugin, we put that knowledge to use by starting a new project: creating a Vim plugin. In each following chapter you learn new aspects of Vim scripting and build on this project. In Chapter 3, The Autoload System, we take advantage of the autoload facility. In Chapter 4, Recognizing File Types, we talk about automatically executed commands and how to detect a filetype. In Chapter 5, Highlighting Syntax, we tell Vim about our own syntax rules and how to highlight syntax. Finally, in Chapter 6, Commands and Mappings, you learn how to write your own commands to run in the Vim command line and ...
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