Turn Vim into a fullblown development environment using Vim 8s new features and this sequel to the beloved bestseller Practical Vim. Integrate your editor with tools for building testing linting indexing and searching your codebase. Discover the future of Vim with Neovim a fork of Vim that includes a builtin terminal emulator that will transform your workflow. Whether you choose to switch to Neovim or stick with Vim 8 youll be a better developer. A serious tool for programmers and web developers no other text editor comes close to Vim for speed and efficiency. Make Vim the centerpiece of a Unixbased IDE as you discover new ways to work with Vim 8 and Neovim in more than 20 handson tips. Execute tasks asynchronously allowing you to continue in Vim while linting grepping building a project or running a test suite. Install plugins to be loaded on startup or ondemand when you need them with Vim 8s new package support. Save and restore sessions enabling you to quit Vim and restart again while preserving your window layout and undo history. Use Neovim as a dropin replacement for Vim it supports all of the features Vim 8 offers and more including an integrated terminal that lets you quickly perform interactive commands. And if you enjoy using tmux and Vim together youll love Neovims terminal emulator which lets you run an interactive shell in a buffer. The terminal buffers fit naturally with Vims split windows and you can use Normal mode commands to scroll search copy and paste. On top of all that Neovims terminal buffers are scriptable. With Vim at the core of your development environment youll become a faster and more efficient developer. What You Need Youll need a Unixbased environment and an uptodate release of Vim 8.0 or newer. For the tips about running a terminal emulator youll need to install Neovim.