Learn how to transform bare-metal Vim to a 🔥  fully integrated IDE 🔥  for any language of your choice by following this 7-step hands-on process  🤙  

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This talk was presented as port of Vim's first virtual Vim conference (vimconf.live), and goes over howe can natively  🛠️ configure 🛠️  Vim to do everything we'd expect from a typical IDE, including seamless file navigation, instantaneous symbol lookups, and smooth build-and-edit workflows. The goal of this is to show you how you can tailor Vim to work for any language without requiring external plugin support, so that you can become a better Vim editor and make smarter decisions about what optimizations you really need as a plugin versus those already on the table.

We'll be exploring the following, each with practical demos to follow along:

1:55 Initializing a vimrc
10:21 The runtimepath and formatting
17:49 Using Vim's :path to instantly find files
24:57 Include-search, Vim's most powerful feature…