Vim round table discussion (Changelog Interviews #56)

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

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Featuring:

• Drew Neil – Website, GitHub, X
• Yehuda Katz – Website, GitHub, X
• Tim Pope – GitHub, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• 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.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!