Practical VIM

Don't be afraid of use VIM

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1. Practical VIM Mario A Chavez @mario_chavez Monday, March 25, 13
2. IDE vs Text Editor • Integrated development environment • Includes “The kitchen sink” • Heavy on resources • Multiplataform • Not that many • Multiple tools • You add what you need • Lightweight on resources • Multiplataform/not all of them • Multiple options Monday, March 25, 13
3. VIM The editor for Unix-like systems (1991) Monday, March 25, 13
4. Text based editor Monday, March 25, 13
5. Works everywhere! Even on a slow connections with high latency AmigaOS (the initial target platform), AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/7, IBM OS/2 and OS/390, MorphOS, OpenVMS, QNX, RISC OS, Unix, Linux,BSD, and Mac OS.[16] Also, Vim is shipped with every copy of Apple Mac OS X.[17] Independent ports of Vim are available both for Android[18] and iOS. Monday, March 25, 13
6. Configuration portable Just copy and paste your dot files Mine are at: https://github.com/mariochavez/vim-dot-files Monday, March 25, 13
7. Scriptable and Extensible A great number of plugins, some written in Ruby Monday, March 25, 13
8. People think VIM is hard Monday, March 25, 13
9. People says it has too many shortcuts Monday, March 25, 13
10. Truth: People are in love with their mouse! Monday, March 25, 13
11. Still popular http://gopollgo.com/what-is-your-primary-text-editor-for-ruby-slash-rails Monday, March 25, 13
12. Good chance you’re hardcore gamer Monday, March 25, 13
13. So you are used to Monday, March 25, 13
14. Katz: ”Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong” Monday, March 25, 13
15. Katz: ”learn vim incrementally” Monday, March 25, 13
16. Tim Pope: Build a lot of plugins for Rubysts Monday, March 25, 13
17. Develop like a “Pro” Use VIM Monday, March 25, 13
18. Thanks ! Monday, March 25, 13