master Vim

I’ve been practicing GVIM by using it every day at work but I’m far from perfect. This reminds me of learning to surf. It was SO frustrating. I knew eventually it’d be fun but the learning curve was long and steep.

I truly admire people who are fluent in VIM. Jealous even…

There are tons of options and just figuring out how to set them and then how to make them persist is a challenge. I’m getting there though and my work is only about 5 times slower then when I do it in TextPad – a huge improvement from the 20 times slower of early last week.

I wanna learn vim. I’ve found a tutorial at http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~xli/vim/vim_tutorial.html
It’s interesting and I need it for writing programs in UNIX later

you type and it happen$ =D no thought required ESC6brs$a can see myself mastering it one day :)

I know a lot, but there’s still a lot to achieve … because it’s so much powerful

I always wondered why people use this editor instead of a fully graphical one like Eclipse, Slickedit, or some of the other ones people use for C++. So I forced myself to use Vim for a week for all software changes I made to our software, all editing, everything.

Now I’m hooked. The thought of touching the mouse while using an editor now is horrible to me. It’s inspired me to even learn to use gdb instead of a frontend debugger built on top of gdb.

Vimperator = VIM for Firfox good practice

I learnt Vim back in college when it was version 3 or so. Through the years, I kept upgrading to newer versions and reading up on its new features. It makes short work of many common editing tasks and to this day, I find most other text editors out there somewhat lacking.

But I’m very comfortable with Vim and have gotten bits that I think are really cool, like having certain mappings only enabled in the appropriate buffer. So if I’m editing a Perl file in one window and a Ruby file in the other, all the mappings while in the Perl file are only relevant for … yes, Perl. And they go away when I switch to the other window, being replaced by Ruby-related mappings.

Oh, all you do is play with autocommands for BufEnter and BufLeave. Autocommands are an awesome feature to have in any editor. Try :help autocommand in your Vim session for details.

Maybe I’m too tired and too sick to try English sentences right now. My Vim skills are getting good enough for me to say I really know how to use this editor.

I use vim for all of my programming/text editting, can’t live without it. The one thing that I want to get better at is navigating with h,j,k,l instead of the arrow keys, I think it would increase my efficiency a lot.:wq^H^H^H

I am now using macros and completions and all sorts of other good stuff.

I’d say I’m a vi guy now, tried and true :)