Tag Archives: vim
Reconsidering Vim
NOTE: This post is not about the editor war — so please don’t try to start one either.
First, some background. Lets just say that I lost my editor virginity to Vim. It was a brief, but violent introduction — the modal editing was too unfamiliar, the learning curve too steep. After dabbling with a few [...]
Vim is still sexy!
NOTE: This post is not about the editor war — so please don’t try to start one either.
I use vim as my editor of choice. As I note above, to each his own editor.
However, Vim is not what one would call a “sexy editor”. After all, it has been around (in some shape or form) [...]
Unsung heroes of the FLOSS world
How many of you have heard of Bram Moolenar? He's the author of Vim (now working at Google Netherlands, actually). Probably some of you have heard of him. Maybe many of you have heard of him. But how many of you have heard of Dr. Chip Campbell? Not many, I suppose.
One of the hallmarks of [...]
Vim7 Screenshot: Tabs!
vim7-tabs
Originally uploaded by diwakergupta.
You can see the tabs in action here. Tabs work in console mode as well (which is partly why they are not as pretty, as say tabs in Firefox). You can configure the display of text in invidual tabs (duh!).
Emacs vs. Vim