Vim round table discussion (The Changelog #56)

Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor.

Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor.

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Featuring

Drew Neil – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Yehuda Katz – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Tim Pope – Twitter, GitHub

Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHub

Notes and Links

Vim seeks to provide the power of Unix’s Vi
Drew Neil hosts VimCasts
Tim Pope has created numerout Vim plugins
Yehuda Katz from SproutCore, Rails, and jQuery fame.
Dr. Nic says Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech.
Janus Yehuda and Carl’s MacVim bundle
Everyone that tried to convince Yehuda to try Vim were wrong.
Vim is a modal interface
Wynn laments that TextMate 2 is the new Duke Nukem
NerdTree is a text-based treeview inside your vim
Tim uses his vibrantink mod called vividchalk
Yehuda wants to give Solarized Vim is cutting edge 1960s tech.
Yehuda like visual block mode
MacVim lets you use ?-S.
Wynn asks how the world would be different if DHH had used Vim instead of TextMate for his famous Rails screencast.
Tim likes CTRL-X, CTRL-E to bind an editor to the command line.
Yehuda says you should be using ruby -e instead of grep
Drew loves CTRL-R, CTRL-W in Vim.
“Matz is (under)rated.”
Tim says we owe so much to Linus for Linux and Git.

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