Vim Hacks

Ovid on 2007-06-26T12:49:48

I'd really like to see O'Reilly put out a "Vim Hacks" book, but in the meantime, there's a Hacking Vim book which has just come out. I should see if I can find a decent technical bookstore in London and check it out (oh, for a Powell's Tech in London!).

In the meantime, I should probably scrape together all of my vim hacks and post them somewhere. I'd probably learn from them since I've use them a lot and just forget 'em, but it might be nice for others to have, too. Critiques would also be useful since I pretty sure I'm declaring variables incorrectly in some plugins.

(I seem to recall that Damian's writing a vim book. Can't wait for that!)


Are you joking?

sigzero on 2007-06-26T14:05:29

Damian is really writing a Vim book? That would be awesome.

Let us know what you think of the "Hacking Vim" book too.

Re:Are you joking?

Ovid on 2007-06-26T14:20:48

He mentioned it in response to another plea for vim help from me.

Re:Are you joking?

sigzero on 2007-06-26T15:14:35

That is awesome!

Re:Are you joking?

VSarkiss on 2007-06-27T14:32:37

Oh my goodness. I'm sure I'll need to get a helmet with Damian's book to keep my brains from spilling out when my head explodes.

Re:Are you joking?

Ovid on 2007-06-27T15:08:00

I'm sure he'll have an appendix on how to use Vim to network computers together into something like a Beowulf cluster dedicated to protein folding solutions. Unfortunately, the controller code will be written in Latin.

Just ordered

petdance on 2007-06-26T17:09:58

Thanks for the pointer to the vim book. I've just ordered it.

bracketing completion and Perl::Tags

mr_bean on 2007-06-27T01:48:50

The vim macros that brought my vim use to a new level were Luc Hermitte's development of Stephen Riehm's bracketing macros http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/idx-all.php#brackets and osfameron's dynamic DWIM tag creation with Perl::Tags http://cpansearch.perl.org/dist/Perl-Tags/

I adapted them to my use and broke them, but not enough to force me to fix the brokenness up.