1. Vim Talk!
08/01/2011

2. Who am I?
● Brian Racer
● http://brianracer.com
● @anveo
● http://github.com/anveo/dotfiles
I have been using vim on a daily basis for about 5 years

3. Learn VIM Incrementally
● start slow
● use a few ideas at a time until you
have committed them to muscle memory or
internalized them

4. Should I use the Terminal or gVim/MacVim?
● I prefer the GUI clients
● Nicer colors
● No terminal binding clashes
● MacVim has a nice fullscreen mode
● However, I want GUI vim to *look* like a terminal window
○ remove all the chrome

5. Example of superior GUI color
● colorcolumn
● line overflow

7. My FAVORITE Tip!
Swap your Caps Lock and Esc keys!
● you never use your caps lock key
● useful outside of vim!

8. Remap Spacebar
● apparently I have weak pinkies and strain my wrists trying to
make a colon
noremap <Space> :

9. Understand :paste mode
nmap <F3> :set paste<CR>
nmap <F4> :set nopaste<CR>

10. Keep <leader><leader> free for misc tasks
:map ,, :ruby %<cr>

11. Quick ruby helpers
● symbol-ize a word
● hash-rocket

12. Useful Vim Plugins

13. NERDTree
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

14. buffexplorer vs. minibufexpl
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?
script_id=42
(use buffexplorer)

15. SuperTab continued
https://github.com/ervandew/supertab
Be sure to use the above version! SuperTab on vim.org has been discontinued.

16. snipMate.vim
https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim
● I suggest ignoring the snippets that are provided
● bind a command to opening your snippet and reloading the snippets

17. matchit
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.
php?script_id=39

18. Command-T
https://wincent.com/products/command-t
● fast file navigation
● build with system ruby (rvm use system)
● matches entire file path unlike textmate

19. ack.vim
http://betterthangrep.com/
https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
● better than vim's grep
● better than remapping vim's grep to ack

20. zoomWin.vim
http://mysite.verizon.
net/astronaut/vim/index.html#ZOOMWIN

21. interactive_editor
https://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor
● gem install 'interactive_editor'
● require in ~/.irbrc

22. sparkup.vim
https://github.com/rstacruz/sparkup
● ZenCoding for vim
● selector expansion
● element expansion

23. Tim Pope scripts
https://github.com/tpope

24. ragtag.vim
https://github.com/tpope/vim-ragtag

25. rails.vim
https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails

26. endwise
https://github.com/tpope/vim-
endwise

27. surround
https://github.com/tpope/vim-
surround

28. repeat
https://github.com/tpope/vim-repeat

29. fugitive.vim
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
● Amazing git integration within vim
● Too awesome for this presentation
● See vimcasts for a 5 part series on this plugin

30. pathogen
https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
● More sane organization of plugins
● Kind-of a bundler for vim
● Makes it easy to try new plugins

31. </tpope>

32. gundo
http://sjl.bitbucket.org/gundo.vim/
https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim
● requires vim 7.3
● vim must have python support

33. syntastic
https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/

34. NERDCommentor
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenter