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Entirely agree on the aesthetics, one of the things holding me back from switching is that I love vibrant ink in textmate. I just can't seem to find a theme that is quite as bright (vividchalk was pretty close). Any suggestions?
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Replying to myself because I can't seem to reply to sigzero: Yeah, I definitely need to get around to reading :h filetype. I mentioned Snipmate in the article, so I know about it :)
This is not vim-related, but the reason you couldn't reply is that HN doesn't let you reply to a comment until after a certain amount of time has passed. This amount of time depends on how deep the comment is in the tree. (I believe the restriction is there to help prevent excessively deep comment trees that are just people arguing back and forth.)
It would be helpful if it mentioned that somewhere...
http://vikingapp.com @vikingapp
But other than that, I think this is a great list of addons and I already use a few of them myself.
" this splits a netrw window in the directory of the current file, :Vexplore for vsplit.
nnoremap - :Sexplore
" I use surround.vim all the time. The default mapping for s is terrible.
nmap s ysi
nmap S ysaI used to use FuzzyFinder_TextMate, but that's stopped development, and the creator recommends you use Command-T instead.
For a free, cross-platform (and excellent) alternative to PeepOpen, try Command-T I used to use FuzzyFinder_TextMate, but that's stopped development, and the creator recommends you use Command-T instead. https://wincent.com/products/command-t
Entirely agree on the aesthetics, one of the things holding me back from switching is that I love vibrant ink in textmate. I just can't seem to find a theme that is quite as bright (vividchalk was pretty close). Any suggestions?
Convert your textmate theme to vim: http://coloration.sickill.net/
edit: Many of the most popular textmate schemes have already been converted and can be found at http://github.com/squil/vim_colors