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Re: Mastering Vim in Vim

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Post by mbrameld »

blablabla123 wrote: post #9
msoad wrote: post #7

For me, a GUI editor is always preferred over Vim. But when I have to use CLI editors, Vim is the best. That's why I will never master in Vim. Because files that I edit most are hosted locally

Used to be the same with me. Then I got a Mac and realized that some keys are missing. My goal was then to learn how to do the stuff that I commonly do in GUI editors: edit multiple files at the same time, copy&paste code around, navigate through the file system conveniently... Googling for these things took some time but now I'm pretty fluent in vim. Also I like the workflow having vim open and then ^Z into the comm…

Even better than ^Z to run tests is temporarily mapping a key combination to run them. For instance, I'll do :map ,t :w\|!rspec which lets me type ,t in command mode to save the file and run the tests. Vim will show you the output of your command and then wait for you to press a key to return to Vim.

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Post by mkhattab »

lightblade wrote: post #11

Can someone explain the last panel in the comic? Where emacs gets a spiral?

I imagine the spiral symbolizes the point past which a person becomes proficient enough to write Elisp easily. The person then realizes the infinite malleability of Emacs and begins customizing it endlessly.

Re: Mastering Vim in Vim

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Post by rbatty »

eroullit wrote: post #10

For Vim mastering outside of Vim, I have found this quite pleasant: http://vim-adventures.com/

I love the idea and execution of this simply because I find making myself practice vim commands to be the hardest part of learning vim, but $25 for a 6 month limited license?

I'm all about game developers getting paid for their work, but that seems crazy overpriced to me & really turned me off of the whole project.

Re: Mastering Vim in Vim

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Post by germano »

rbatty wrote: post #16
eroullit wrote: post #10

For Vim mastering outside of Vim, I have found this quite pleasant: http://vim-adventures.com/

I love the idea and execution of this simply because I find making myself practice vim commands to be the hardest part of learning vim, but $25 for a 6 month limited license? I'm all about game developers getting paid for their work, but that seems crazy overpriced to me & really turned me off of the whole project.

If you consider the price in terms of the utility you'll get out of it I think that's a reasonable price. This book[1] is recommended up the page and that's $23 minimum.

[1]: http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim

Re: Mastering Vim in Vim

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Post by rbatty »

germano wrote: post #17
rbatty wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the idea and execution of this simply because I find making myself practice vim commands to be the hardest part of learning vim, but $25 for a 6 month limited license? I'm all about game developers getting paid for their work, but that seems crazy overpriced to me & really turned me off of the whole project.

If you consider the price in terms of the utility you'll get out of it I think that's a reasonable price. This book[1] is recommended up the page and that's $23 minimum. [1]: http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim

Right, but you get to keep the book, not give it back after 6 months.

Re: Mastering Vim in Vim

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Post by hibbelig »

msoad wrote: post #7

For me, a GUI editor is always preferred over Vim. But when I have to use CLI editors, Vim is the best. That's why I will never master in Vim. Because files that I edit most are hosted locally

GUI editor? MacVim! GVim!

I find that MacVim is rather nice. It integreates really nicely with the graphical environment.

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