#vim

Besides regular absolute line numbers, Vim has relative and “hybrid” modes to help navigate around files.

Besides regular absolute line numbers, Vim has relative and “hybrid” modes to help navigate around files.

Forget Apple vs. Google. Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among programmers for 40 years.

When you’ve been working for awhile and you’re all moved in to your new digs – maybe it’s the end of the day, maybe it’s been 71 days and you finally have to give in and restart your computer, you just save the session file to anywhere you’d like (I like ~/.vim/sessions/) using :mksession (or :mks)

When you’ve been working for awhile and you’re all moved in to your new digs – maybe it’s the end of the day, maybe it’s been 71 days and you finally have to give in and restart your computer, you just save the session file to anywhere you’d like (I like ~/.vim/sessions/) using :mksession (or :mks)

This post aims to provide an overview of how to create a highly functional and easy to configure Text Triumvirate for those new to this tool chain. I try to focus on aspects of how to integrate zsh, vim, and tmux with particular focus on my experiences with two common problems—copy/paste functionality and color aesthetics.

saves the file whenever focus is lost

The Vim text editor was first released to the public on November 2, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. Although it was originally designed as a vi clone for the Amiga, it was soon ported to other platforms and eventually grew to become the most popular vi-compatible text editor. It is still actively developed and widely used across several operating systems.

Editing in Vim can be a breeze, if you know how to make use of its more advanced features. Moving around files can feel like a slog if you're stuck with the basic movement keys, but editing is effortless when you have command of marks and jumps.

"Conque is a Vim plugin allowing users to execute and interact with programs, typically a shell such as bash, inside a buffer window. The goal is always to keep the terminal behaviour as close as possible to its native interface, while adding the additional features of Vim on top. "

"However, I don't refer to commonly used shortcuts that a noob would find cool. I am talking about a seasoned unix user (be she/he a developer, admin, both, etc), who thinks (s)he knows something 99% of us never heard or dreamed about. Something that not only makes his/her work easier, but also is COOL and hackish. After all, vim resides in the most dark-corner-rich OS in the world, thus it should have intricacies that only a few privileged know about and want to share with us."

"If you want to use VIM to edit/view the JavaScript files, you should have this one"

"This indentation script for javascript "

"Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in."

"This is a Vim syntax file for the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool."

"For the complete description check the vim help file (in vim type :help auto-setting and :help modeline)."

"This package contains a Vim syntax file and file-type plugin for the simple format used by TaskPaper"

"VI takes this same paradigm of pipes and filters and simply wraps it in a editor user interface in which the pipe is applied to editing buffer both as a source and as a destination."

"This patch (version 7) was included in the official vim source as of 7.0.233 and will be in vim 7.1"

"This tip shows you how to make an applescript file, and how to use it so you can open files from the command line in the same window."

"A really useful feature in Vim is the ability to split the viewable area between one or more files, or just to split the window to view two bits of the same file more easily."

"If you want edit new file, and you want do it in alrady running vim, instead of launching another instance, you may use --remote argument"

"Several modern GUI editors list your open buffers as tabs along the top or bottom of your screen (VisualStudio, DreamWeaver, EditPlus and UltraEdit come to mind), now we have this feature in VIM!"

":g is something very old and which is very powerful."

"Dominik Eckelt has compiled vim 7 alpha for OS X 10.4 (Tiger)."

":e scp://username@host/a/file/in/your/homedir" I had absolutely no idea you could do this with Vim.

Wow, now this is hott.

I'm slowly but surely building up my vim level. *DING*