Vim is a powerful editing tool, but there are some things it just can't do. However, Vim lets you access shell commands and utilities without leaving Vim, and that lets you perform some amazing tricks.     If you run :shell or just :sh while you're in t... (more…)

Fifteen years ago, writing Lisp code in Vim was an odd adventure. There were no good plugins for Vim that assisted in structured editing of Lisp s-expressions or allowed interactive programming by embedding a Lisp Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) or a debugge... (more…)

Official mirror of Slimv versions released on vim.org - GitHub - kovisoft/slimv: Official mirror of Slimv versions released on vim.org... (more…)

Published: 18-09-2014 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article ... (more…)

In a pinch, I needed to randomize the order of a few thousand lines of plain text. In Linux you can just pipe the file through sort, even right inside Vim: (more…)