Posts labeled "vim"

Vim Classes: Week 3: Customizing Your Vim Environment

My dotfiles http://github.com/shawncplus/dotfiles Installing plugins with Pathogen    http://vimcasts.org/episodes/synchronizing-plugins-with-git-submodules-and-pathogen/ Other stuffs    Take a look at my .vimrc on github, go through the settings and pick the ones you like and don… more »

Minimalist Vim Wallpaper

Wrote up a quick Vim wallpaper. Wait, wrote up? Yup, I stink at design so I wrote (in Vim obviously) the html/css appropriate for this and then took a screenshot. Download Here Preview Note:I used the vim.svg icon from the gnome-human iconset. If you know the original artist… more »

Vim Classes: Week 1

Here lies the class notes from the first Vim class at Buffalo Lab Getting Vim Vim.org's downloads On Ubuntu sudo apt-get install vim-full Starting Vim Windows: Use gVim shortcut Command-line vim: vim [file] Opening a file with Vim Whilst in normal mode :e [file]… more »

Git Commit Templates, Vim, And You!

The newer versions of git ( >= 1.7.x I believe) have support for using templates in commit messages which is a really handy feature. They are made even moreso by using template tokens in conjunction with ... power of Vim echoes through the valley. So lets take a second to see how we can get … more »

Ongoing Projects

So in all 5 minutes of my free time I've managed to squeeze in some side projects. One I've "highlighted" (pun intended) here before: lzHilight. The other is a mini-project I through together to add cterm support to Vim colorschemes without the need for the somewhat bulky GuiColorScheme plug… more »

Skittles Dark: A Vim Colorscheme

PHP C++ Download: Skittles Dark I've used quite a few color schemes in the past with vim. The first one I fell in love with was Wombat. It was clean, had good contrast and was easy on the eyes during late night sessions/dimly lit cubicles. The second that I… more »

Vim Brush For SyntaxHighlighter

SyntaxHighlighter is awesome but there is no builtin Vim "brush" as they call their files which match a syntax. At first I tried to hack it by adding "vim" as an alias to the Bash brush but that only caught a few keywords at most and since I've been posting a lot of Vim snippets lately I… more »

My Vim/gVim Setup

UPDATE:The following is quite out of date. My up-to-date dotfiles can be found on github: https://github.com/shawncplus/dotfiles I am not shy in the least in saying that I use Vim and that I believe it is a superior text editor once you overcome the steep learning curve. I speak for mysel… more »