Discussions about learning vim

I am looking for tips for learning Vim or Emacs the smart way... I am a quite happy user of Eclipse (I mostly develop in PHP and Python), however I found the answers to "What specific productivity gains does Vim/Emacs provide over GUI text editors?" interesting enough to make me wish to try out Vim or Emacs as well... Started by mac on Saturday, November 28, 2009, 16 posts by 16 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Maybe, a good way is to learn.... For learning the basics of vim, this graphical cheatsheet helped me a lot. The tutorial eases the learning curve. It " after trying to learn editing with vim several times in the past.

What's the benefit of learning vim over continue using Notepad++? I already use Notepad++ a lot for text, html/php/javascript and autohotkey files but I read I'll be more productive with vim once I learn it. what's the real benefit here? Stuff I like in notepad++: tabbed interface, highliting, ctrl+ / ctrl- to change... Started by umegastar on Thursday, July 16, 2009, 8 posts by 8 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Some people feel that VIM isn't worth the time to learn after spending a week to edit files throught a terminal.... vim is nice of a file. If you are confortable, fast and productive with Notepad++ don't worry to learn vim.

Is learning VIM worth the effort? As a programmer I spend a lot of hours at the keyboard and I've been doing it for the last 12 years more or less. If there's something I've never gotten used to during all this time is these annoying and almost unconscious constant micro-interruptions... Started by Trap on Friday, February 27, 2009, 34 posts by 34 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): David Rayner's Best of Vim Tips site is an excellent list, though it's probably more It depends.... But if you don't know any other command-line editors very well, it's worth learning learning new things. To learn vi/vim.

Are there any reasons why a C# developer should learn Emacs/VIM? I work as a c# developer in a purely Microsoft shop. I recently started teaching myself assembly using gas and Linux in my free time away from work. I like messing about with Linux, I'm still very new to it though. I keep hearing I should learn VIM or... Started by bplus on Saturday, March 14, 2009, 15 posts by 15 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I'd recommend vim if you are going to learn one or the other, but I know in earlier answers, Vim.... I find for every IDE I work with. VIM and EMACS are great if you're willing to learn the keyboard shortcuts. Back and forth.

Vim Tutorials I want to start using vim as my text editor for PHP, what do you guys suggest as good tutorials for not only using vim but also in a project sense? Started by dragonmantank on Tuesday, August 05, 2008, 19 posts by 18 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): The best way I know to learn vim is by watchinghttp://blog.interlinked.... Itself! I have had an excellent experience learning all the commands from Jonathan McPherson's vim on splitting windows, vi regex, and you should be all set.

Vim features and extension that make your work easier What Vim features and extension do you use? Which would you recommend for a Linux sysadmin? Started by Alakdae on Sunday, May 31, 2009, 12 posts by 12 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): I don't use any that the power of vim for a sysadmin.... Python a lot, and whitespace matters there =) I read a book about vim (Learning the vi editorThis probably isn't going to be the prevailing opinion, but I use vanilla vim.

How does one navigate Ruby methods in VIM? I'm learning VIM for Rails development and would like to easily navigate methods in a file. So far I see several options: Find 'def' by using /def<space> Create a macro that corresponds to a key using q and record use VIM marks? (not even sure what... Started by btelles on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): From VIM :help ctags ctags will create an index of all identifiers VIM as a more full featured Ruby IDE: Using Vim as a Complete Ruby On Rails IDE Usually I just the C function searching keys in ~/.vim.... And is v simple to use.

Trying to compile and debug C++ from Vim I've been learning C++ and Allegro using Code::Blocks on Windows XP, and recently felt like learning Vim. However, I have no idea how to compile a program "manually" (i.e., without using an IDE). For compiling from within Vim, I have gotten as far as ... Started by Caio on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): To learn more about GNU Make and Makefiles: make (Wikipedia) GNU Make GNU Make Manual Also, see this question: compile directly from vim Mandatory edit: I don't use Windows or Cygwin easier this can be mapped to a key .... It under Cygwin.

How do you use vim's quickfix feature? I'm a pretty new Vim user and I've found that its learning curve is quite steep (at least for me). I just installed this vim script for JavaScriptLint error checking, which shows errors in vim's quickfix window once I save a buffer. However, I don't know... Started by hora on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Other vim window: j down a line, k up a line, :cn to jump to the next error/warning, etc.

Want to use Vim movement on all other programs I'm learning Vim and with it came the urge to use 'hjkl' and friends on every other program, including mouse operated programs like browsers. can something be done? working on Linux. Thanks. Started by Liran Orevi on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 10 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): It's a tiling window manager with vim-like bindings by default, written by coders who use vim Editra : developer's editor VimPlugin.... It won't make. It uses keybindings similar to Vim to move between windows, if I recall correctly.