Mastering the Art of Vim Fu

• Doug McInnes
• Alf Mikula

History

• ed
• em (“editor for mortals”)
• en
• ex/vi written by Bill Joy in 1976
• Today vi is part of Single Unix Specification and POSIX
• Vi IMitation written for Amiga in 1988
• Vi IMitation first release on Fred Fish disk #591 in 1992
• Unix port becomes Vi IMproved in 1994

Vi IMproved

• completion
• comprehensive integrated help system
• extended regular expressions
• native scripting language
• Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl integration
• plugins
• mouse interaction
• …and much more!

MacVim

• MacVim
• MacVim
• MacVim
• MacVim

Basics for the n00bs

• modal editing
• escape escape escape
• counts
• leader character
• ex commands (:)
• help!
• vimtutor

Advanced features

• ctags
• quickfix
• split windows
• tabs
• regex
• macros! (Live demo)

VIML

• Programming language for extensions
• Ruby support

NERDTree

• Like TextMate project drawer
• Live Demo

rails.vim

• gf
• :A
• :Rextract
• Live Demo

Command-T

• Like TextMate Command-T
• Live Demo

BufExplorer

• Explore your buffers!
• Live Demo

vimfiles

http://github.com/scrooloose/vimfiles

Other Plugins

• vimball archive
• NERDCommenter
• NERDSnippets
• SnipMate
• Align
• RubySingleTest
• endwise
• AutoTags

vim.org

Links

http://www.vim.org/

MacVim – http://code.google.com/p/macvim/

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips

Cheat Sheet! – http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html

More Links

http://items.sjbach.com/319/configuring-vim-right

Screencasts on Vim – http://vimcasts.org/

Vim Tip a Day on Twitter – http://twitter.com/vimtips

http://durdn.com/blog/2008/11/26/vim-mind-share-soaring-roundup-of-10-vim-articles-recent-and-older-gems/

Even More Links

Vim Recipies – http://vim.runpaint.org/toc/

http://biodegradablegeek.com/2007/12/using-vim-as-a-complete-ruby-on-rails-ide/

Plugin Links

The Rails Plugin – http://rails.vim.tpope.net/

NERD Tree – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658

Command-T – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025

BufExplorer – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=42

AutoTag – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1343

More Plugin Links

Vimball – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1502

NERDCommenter – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1218

NERDSnippets – http://github.com/scrooloose/nerdsnippets

Align – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=294

RubySingleTest – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2869

Thanks!

http://amikula.github.com/vim_fu/vim_fu.html

Alf Mikula @alfmikula

Doug McInnes @dougmcinnes