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Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by johncoltrane »

JadeNB wrote: post #85
johncoltrane wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of that can be done much more efficiently without the mouse: - scrolling with a mouse wheel :h scroll.txt - selecting/resizing a split window :h window-resize :h window-move-cursor - jumping to a specific place in the code /foo or the myriad of cool things in :h motion.txt - making a selection v{motion}

> All of that can be done much more efficiently without the mouse: Surely we don't need to get into this sort of thing here. If you don't know how to do it without the mouse, then it's more efficient to do it with the mouse. If you don't remember how to do it without the mouse, then it's more efficient to do it with the mouse. If you just like using the mouse better, then …. Anyway, and perhaps more importantly, it d…

It doesn't hurt these "anyone" to be pointed at better ways to do what they do.

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by dysoco »

kunai wrote: post #96

> With a modern, 256-color terminal like iTerm2 or Gnome Terminal, it will even look like gVim Uh, I use xterm... It's obsolete, I know, but it's still the fastest.

Fastest? Like I'd realize the speed difference between xterm, urxvt or even Gnome Terminal.

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by mtts »

johncoltrane wrote: post #5

netrw comes by default. No need to install NERDTree.

One thing NERDTree does that netrw doesn't (IIRC, haven't looked very deeply into this) is open files you select in a different window than the one that contains the file listing. I happen to find that convenient, YMMV, of course.

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by burke »

oacgnol wrote: post #41
derwiki wrote: post #39

The author mentioned CtrlP for fuzzy filename matching. Its great because it's in pure Vimscript, but in my experience it becomes unusably slow for moderately sized projects. A month or two ago, I switched back to CommandT (requires Vim to be compiled with Ruby support, engine written in C) and haven't thought twice about it since then.

I've been meaning to try out matcher[0] for usage with CtrlP, I'm not sure how well it works but it's written in C and is purported to speed up search. Not sure if it's still being maintained, however... [0] https://github.com/burke/matcher

There's not much to maintain. I ported the matcher from Command-T out of its ruby-C wrapper, and it more or less just works. I use it dozens or hundreds of times a day.

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by kunai »

dysoco wrote: post #123
kunai wrote: post #96

> With a modern, 256-color terminal like iTerm2 or Gnome Terminal, it will even look like gVim Uh, I use xterm... It's obsolete, I know, but it's still the fastest.

Fastest? Like I'd realize the speed difference between xterm, urxvt or even Gnome Terminal.

Trust me, when you have really crappy hardware (Intel Atom 1.3GHz w/ 512MB mem), you will notice the difference. Execution of commands that takes 2-3 seconds on Gnome Terminal will be nearly instant on xterm.

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by welder »

My vimrc file with step-by-step instructions for installation:

https://github.com/alanhamlett/Alan-vimrc

Some features in my vimrc file:

* Code folding for bracket or indention based languages

* Edit multiple files in tabs using minibufexpl plugin

* Using the Solarized color scheme

* Using Vundle for plugin management (apt-get for Vim plugins)

* Common swp, backup, & view directories (No more ~ files left around)

* Useful defaults (spaces instead of tabs, remove trailing newlines, etc.)

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by kunai »

Bjartr wrote: post #104

Minor nitpick, but can any terminals do squiggly underlines or is that still a gVim only feature?

Squiggly underlines? What, do you mean:

    1 class Hello
  ~
  ~
  ~
  ~
  ~
  --INSERT--
Like that? Of course; heck, even xterm does that fine. If you were referring to something else, I'm not too sure...

EDIT:

Never mind, now I know what you're talking about. No, I don't think you can get those in terminal vim, but I'm pretty sure there is a plugin for it.

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by haar »

Xion wrote: post #18
puls wrote: post #9

Why do people keep suggesting iTerm2? The built-in terminal app on the Mac does Unicode and 256 colors just fine.

iTerm2 has few other fancy features, like horizontal and vertical splitting or Guake-like top-down terminal [0]. [0] http://ivanvillareal.com/osx/setup-iterm2-to-behave-like-gua...

Multi-pane input via cmd-shift-i, and saved pane/window configurations through cmd-shift-s and cmd-shift-r also come in handy.

Re: Vim After 11 Years

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Post by jlgreco »

johncoltrane wrote: post #119
jlgreco wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree on most points, but there is no way that wacking Ctrl-W +/-/>/ You can of course make nicer mappings, but even then it isn't as nice.

All these commands take a count: 10 But I tend to keep windows at equal width anyway.

I don't count columns, I resize to taste.

I also resize often, particularly when using vimdiff, because I often use smaller screens (either because I am watching other things in tmux panes at the same time, or because I am working on my eeepc).

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