I’ve managed to throw together a video on Insert Mode today. I’m not supremely happy with this one… it was a bit rushed as I only had a short amount of time between the moments when my daughter pulls on my pant-leg asking me to do “something”.
I may redo this one, not sure yet – it’ll just depend on how much time I’ve got.
I’ve managed to cobble together a video that introduces Vim’s modes.
I just happened to see this story at engadget and dug a little deeper to find the EigenHarp at EigenLabs. This is possibly the coolest friggin’ MIDI Controller (almost) on the market today. It’s ridiculously expensive – way out of my price range at close to $7000 (it is just a controller after all – you still gotta have a computer and some soft synths, I believe) but that doesn’t diminish it’s complete and utter coolness!
I play an EWI 4000s which is a wicked cool super powerhouse MIDI Controller, but compred to the EigenHarp it looks like it was invented over 20 years ago (which it was :D). The EigenHarp is like some sort of psychedelic Bassoon with its LEDs, tons of keys, and insane levels of control – well, it’s just a beast of a controller.
I can’t wait to see what happens with this thing over the next few years.
I put up a new video that describes the vimrc and the Vim runtime directories.
You can have a look right here.
How to use the Help System is now online, and I think this may finish off the “Novice” set of videos. We’ve done a lot of good work moving forward with “How to use Vim”, and this video will give you some assistance with helping yourself using Vim’s superb help system.
I think the next video on the agenda will cover the runtime directory so that we can start dealing with plugins and customization a bit better before we dive back in to some more esoteric editing concepts.
I’ve just made a few updates to the vimrc section of this site to describe a bit more about what the vimrc is, where it can be found, etc… As well, I updated the bare minimum to include ‘wildmenu’ – an absolute must!
Well, it took quite a while but I’ve finally made the Novice Tutorial Prequel – Welcome to Vim. For most of you this won’t be very informative but I really felt that these Novice videos needed a true introduction, and this is it :)
Well, I just updated to the latest BoinxTV (a beta release, in fact) and some problems that I was having earlier appear to have disappeared! Things are much more stable now – in fact, I don’t see any flaws anymore at all and I have just completed my first video with it, which should be uploaded soon.
I got BoinxTV as part of MacHeist 3 so this was a serious deal and for the moment, I couldn’t be happier.