I’ve managed to cobble together a video that introduces Vim’s modes.
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.
I’ve been trying to put together the next Vim video most of the day. It’s actually going to be the prequel video that introduces Vim. To do it, I’ve dusted off my copy of BoinxTV that I got from the last Macheist and, while a very cool app, it’s causing me some issues that I’m trying to get worked out with the Boinx guys. Hopefully it will be solved soon so that I can get back to publishing these things. I’ve had a very busy month that made it very difficult to do anything but work, travel and take care of my adorable little two year old :). I got to clean up strawberry juice out of the carpet today and of course, the poop – oh the poop…
So this video will attempt to truly introduce Vim and give a springboard to the novice videos. Once that’s in the can I’ll move on to continue where we left off by describing how to install plugins and work with file types. We need to start looking at Vim’s extensibility through plugins and so I need to lay some foundation for that.
I’ve managed to finally get a video up on working with Vim windows. You can check it out at: