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Frustrations with Vim lead me briefly to Emacs and ultimately to experiment with NeoVim.
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Vim commands are terse and arcane, but very expressive. See a complex command broken down by clause.
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GitHub lets you create pretty tables in Markdown. Keeping those tables pretty in the source code doesn’t have to be painful.
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How to search and replace from your shell and editor.
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How do you break out of beginner-level Git? And is it worth it?
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Improve your project team’s spelling abilities with these Vim tips.
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The best introduction to Vim we know how to make.
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Run single specs and entire features with vim-rspec.
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Learn how to set up Vim for writing Go.
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Control Rdio from Vim using AppleScript, JavaScript, and duct tape.
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Learn how to setup Vim for editing lisps.
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Write syntax plugins to highlight and indent languages in Vim.
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Write a Vim plugin with confidence using TDD.
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A minimal technique for using tmux to help achieve maximum focus.
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Don’t start over. Edit the register visually.
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Using a fuzzy finder like Ctrl-P has improved my speed to find files
over my previous method of a file drawer in Vim like NERDTree.
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Write a recursive Vim macro with qqq to clear the q register,
qq to start recording the macro,
doing your work,
invoking the macro recursively with @q,
stop recording the macro with q,
and then invoking the macro with @q.
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We often search our projects for specific text within Vim like so:
:grep...
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There are times when we edit prose in Vim, such as in a project README or git...
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Have you ever seen “No newline at end of file” in your git diffs? Us, too.
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Announcing our newest screencast series: Navigating Ruby Files with Vim.
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How to use GUI editors for command-line tools, and why.
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(And Keep Your Screen Real Estate)
As you may know, there are...
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When I first started working at thoughtbot, I was impressed to see some of my...
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Test driven development thrives on a tight feedback loop. However, switching...
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Hello Vim-warriors, we’ve added a new screencast to The Art of Vim about Text...
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I’m very pleased to announce our latest product on Upcase, The Art of Vim.
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My tmux session for a given project typically has two horizontal tmux panes...
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Thanks to the always awesome Tim Pope,
Rails.vim version 5 was
released
a...
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Most of us are Vim users and have tweaked our favorite editor for speed and...
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You have an existing block of text or code in vim. You want to re-format it...
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Imagine you’re working in vim. You come across this code:
gem 'clearance',...
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Demonstrating Vim
Have you ever noticed that Vim demonstrations...
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Ever watch someone else type at a shell, spelling out every filename, even...
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How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development?
Someone asks...
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This method has a magic number:
def wait_time
@env[QUEUE_WAIT_HEADER].to_i...
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Set a .gitignore file to apply across all projects on your local machine...
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In vim, for an entire file:
:%s/:\([^ ]*\)\(\s*\)=>/\1:/g
In the shell,...
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Ever get the urge to update a ton of files? I know I do. For example, I...
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A quick screencast that shows how I use CSS snippets to speed up my...
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The first Boston Vim Meetup was awesome.
How awesome? This awesome:
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I’ve been speaking about and teaching people vim for several years now, and...
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Time for some self-VIMprovement! As you might know, the thoughtbot crew uses...
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Calling all vimmers!
Mark your calendars, clear your registers, and follow...
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Mike just schooled us with some “vim by
example.” His use case:
I want to...
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A recent straw poll of text editor fonts at thoughtbot found these results....
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I recently switched to MacVim for front-end
development. Coming from Panic...
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Learn everything you need to be productive in tmux.
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Many at thoughtbot run their editor+shell combos inside of tmux. Some remote...
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Seeing that I refuse to be tied down by the shackles of corded peripherals, I...