Vim round table discussion (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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 – 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.

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