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I don't want to take anything away from Vico (because so far it is pretty rad), but if you stick with MacVim you eventually start using TextMate less and less until you just stop altogether. For me, it took a good 3 months or so. The last holdout was using TextMate for formatting JSON output, but I found a Chrome plugin for that.
your right and I have seen my percentage time on vim get higher an higher over the months, but thats from persistance. Its slow progress because I mainly work in eclipse and the vim plugins aren't 100% great for me. Vim is just hard work getting going, e.g. in HTML I like to have the closing tag automatically done for me which im sure vim can do but i've just not had chance to look into. There are 100 other small thi…
(1) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540 (2) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1879
It took me one month and a half to stop using TextMate. Once you are accustomed to oOaAiI, rR, wWeEbB or ci( or all the rest it's very hard to open TextMate and take it seriously.
I really want to try out vim and tiling wm setup. Is this a good place to get my feet wet? I was going to just set up VM of ArchLinux.
vim works on mac anyway - macvim for gvim equivalent. As far as I know there aren't any decent tiling wms for mac.
That said, I use ShiftIt(1), it's free, keyboard based and does EXACTLY what I want it to do.
Overall it looks fantastic, but I am pretty dead set on my MacVim ways with my various plugins that it is going to be hard to get me to switch.
TextMate is a joke. Nothing worse than missed opportunity. Such a huge community behind it and MacroMates seems completely incapable of providing a new release.
I really want to try out vim and tiling wm setup. Is this a good place to get my feet wet? I was going to just set up VM of ArchLinux.
If you want to try tiling window managers + Vim, your best bet is to use MacPort to install gvim and either wmii, awesome or ion3. Other WMs worth trying are wmfs, dwm, xmonad… you'll need manual compiling though.
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I love MacVim too, and have dropped Textmate completely. The only thing that I don't like about MacVim is that scrolling through text (vertically and especially horizontally) feels choppy compared to Textmate. When I see someone else scrolling through code in Textmate, it looks unbelievably smooth and fluid compared to what I'm used to in MacVim.
That's because scrolling with the mouse was a bit of an afterthough, I think. If you use motions, word objects and Ctrl+f/Ctrl+b you don't really notice this choppiness.
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I think it's a similar phenomenon to people closing windows to free up space on the taskbar (for GUIs that have such a thing like Gnome and Windows). If you remove the list of "open" things people are free to just do what they want and let the OS worry about paging if memory fills up and all that sort of thing. It's a pleasant experience if the abstraction doesn't leak, e.g. Win98 crashing if you opened "too many" pr…
Good answer. Is there no cost whatsoever to having many buffers open? I like the simplicity of just cycling through rather than searching for whats-its-name-again - seems to be easier to remember for my fingers as well. A couple of years ago I used to keep 100s of tabs open in FF. Then I went mobile and started caring about watts. Not the same situation, but I think it influenced my few-files-open habits.
These days I use TextMate more than Emacs and for small personal projects I like quickly switching between say the readme, makefile, code, and test with Cmd-[1-9]. If there are few files to edit tabs can be advantageous. This stuff is highly personal and dependent on workflow.
Although one essential change to the defaults is to remap CapsLock to be the same as Control --see System Prefs-- and then using Control-F to move the cursor forward one. Helps you get past automatically inserted closing brackets with minimal hand movement. I find that really tedious and annoying otherwise.