Archive for the 'Vim' tag

I’ve managed to cobble together a video that introduces Vim’s modes. Have a look at it right here.

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...
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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 :)

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...
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I’ve managed to finally get a video up on working with Vim windows. You can check it out at: Working with Many Files (Screencast 3)

I’ve re-recorded Basic Editing 1 & 2 for Vim to align better with how I’ve been doing things lately and to make them more clear. You can check them out at: Basic Editing (Screencast 1) Basic Editing (Screencast 2)

I saw this cute little post on Twitter in the #vim section and was intrigued. It’s a pretty neat representation of the keyboard mappings within Vim. You never know – it just might be what you’re looking for. The link is here.

I had to redo the Working with Many Files (Screencast 1) video because there was some weird audio encoding problem with it that Vimeo just wasn’t happy dealing with. But, at any rate, it appears to work correctly now! Have a look at Working with Many Files (Screencast 1).