I’ve been using vim pretty much exclusively as my editor for about 8 years now and I like to think I’ve amassed a few tricks along the way. Instead of the standard entry-level advice, here are some, as far as I can tell, lesser-known vim tips. (more…)

In this video I will demonstrate a few commands on the first public release of Vim running on an Amiga emulator.Here is a brief explanation of the setup, let... (more…)

about a 2 minute This post presents a chapter from my upcoming book Mastering Vim Quickly: From WTF to OMG in no time As you already saw in the chapter on Undo/redo, Vim is pretty powerful when it comes to these features. However, there’s one more feature... (more…)

Vim and Emacs have different internals models for the current working directory, and these models influence the overall workflow for each editor. They decide how files are opened, how shell commands are executed, and how the build system is operated. Thes... (more…)

Because code is a largely unseen feature of modern times, it's easy to forget that software engineers are quite literally building the digital world by hand. It's lost on most of us programmers when we log into our computers each morning that the task we ... (more…)