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Re: Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

#11
Awesome tool. Seems super useful not only for new vim users.

Being a vim-pro, but using it for very specific tasks only, it always annoys the crap out of me, setting vim up with reasonable defaults on a new machine/OS.

One thing which I found missing from your nice selection of options is how vim handles the clipboard. Please let me choose (or include useful defaults if you have not done so already) how vim's internal clipboard interacts with the clipboard of the OS.

Re: Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

#13
post #11

Awesome tool. Seems super useful not only for new vim users. Being a vim-pro, but using it for very specific tasks only, it always annoys the crap out of me, setting vim up with reasonable defaults on a new machine/OS. One thing which I found missing from your nice selection of options is how vim handles the clipboard. Please let me choose (or include useful defaults if you have not done so already) how vim's interna…

how about your dotfiles. I can bootstrap everything in new computer in one or two scripts :)

Re: Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

#14
post #13
post #11

Awesome tool. Seems super useful not only for new vim users. Being a vim-pro, but using it for very specific tasks only, it always annoys the crap out of me, setting vim up with reasonable defaults on a new machine/OS. One thing which I found missing from your nice selection of options is how vim handles the clipboard. Please let me choose (or include useful defaults if you have not done so already) how vim's interna…

how about your dotfiles. I can bootstrap everything in new computer in one or two scripts :)

For OSX I have my vim files synced via Dropbox. But when you want to use vim on Windows or Linux you have to reconfigure quite a bit.

I love fiddling around with editor settings as much as the next guy. But when you have a specific task at hand and just want to quickly use vim then realising its not already set up. Copying configs and googling around to make them work in the current environment can become a very unwanted time sink.

Re: Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

#15

On the plugins page, I'd suggest adding links to the plugins themselves (whether that be a github repository or some other page) for more information about them.

Also I would move the description of the plugin to be under the title but above the photo. It took me a few seconds to find where the description was.

Re: Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

#18
post #2

Good concept, this can become a marketplace to find and discover Vim plugins. You have moved one step ahead to easily install(but manage the same?) Little feedback: 1. Add options to see what a developer just installed. I find it very interesting to see other's development environments, their workflows, history and .rc files. 2. Create a system where developers love to share their workflows, environments, history, vi…

So true. I'd love to try other people's recipe as a downloadable bundle.

If I could sign up and have it keep a history of downloads I made or save settings so I could go back and tweak my existing configuration that'd be wonderful.

+1, really awesome.

Re: Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online

#19
post #2

Good concept, this can become a marketplace to find and discover Vim plugins. You have moved one step ahead to easily install(but manage the same?) Little feedback: 1. Add options to see what a developer just installed. I find it very interesting to see other's development environments, their workflows, history and .rc files. 2. Create a system where developers love to share their workflows, environments, history, vi…

This is really a great creation, please allow people to submit (and vote) plugins, count my vim-seek in as soon as that is possible! I also second the parent's suggestions, making it a social experience would be amazing and a real boon to vim users everywhere.

Also allowing little functions and custom mappings that people have in their vimrc, in a more organized and social way than those vim tips websites do, would be awesome.

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