Any Vim-acrobats here?

Hello!

So many years, and I did not even learn Vim. Now decided, things will change, I need to learn use the Vim text editor.

I’m asking you, to encourage me further: Could you show me some Vim-acrobatics, how you edit some code, make some tricks. Film it and post to YouTube, Vimeo, or whatever… Not to need be a tutorial of any kind, just some jumping around the text, finding code structure, completion, error correction, or just new ways of looking your code.

Thanks!

haha,

Never used vim, but here’s a good article I read about Emacs :slight_smile:

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

yay stevey :slight_smile:

There is no one specific trick that shows the undeniable power of vim -> it’s a collection of seemingly trivial shortcuts which you use consistently to make the magic happen.

I’ve been using vim for a little over a year now, and it takes about that long to truly reap the benefits.

… My favorite function, so far, is the quick “Till” which allows me to delete up to a specific marker from the current position: It’s really handy when replacing things in perens, because I can just delete the things inside with a few keystrokes - namely “dt)”.

PS: Down with emacs! :evilgrin:

It’s three months now, how did it end: Well, I landed to the side of Emacs.

The reason. Emacs is not a text editor. Emacs is a Lisp interpreter. Almost exactly what I needed. Of course Python would be nice, but the only practical choises were Vim and Emacs. It was the more mature nature of Emacs Lisp reasoning the decision. It is a whole operating system, with a comprehensive and profound documentation.

It’s a lot of things. :wink:

Good to hear.

Vim has a Python interface. If you want to elaborate on usage, perhaps we can wean you back from the dark side?