VimScript is pretty good: VIm London Jan 2014

A talk about how learning VimScript has really improved my Vim usage.

Transcript

1. VimScript is pretty good. @Jack_Franklin
2. I suck at VimScript.
3. And I’m going to show you some rubbish VimScript
4. This isn’t a presentation on learning VimScript.
5. But why you should learn it.
8. And this is why we all love Vim.
9. We’ve all put mappings in our .vimrc
10. And VimScript is the natural progression
11. And VimScript is the natural progression
15. Each of these saves me time, but more importantly, keystrokes
16. Plus VimScript isn’t that bad* ! *mostly
17. function! TwitterLink() let searchRegex = '@\([^ .]*\)' let searchReplace = '[&](http:// twitter.com/\1)' ! let oldLine = getline('.') let newLine = substitute(oldLine, searchRegex, searchReplace, ‘g') ! call setline('.', newLine) endfunction
18. You might not want to write plugins
19. But any arbitrary VimScript can go inside a .vimrc…
20. Something I do all the time is want to execute a file
21. So I wrote some VimScript to do it all for me
23. map <leader>e :call ExecuteFile()<CR>
25. xkcd.com/1319
26. github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles ! github.com/jackfranklin/vim-markdown- writer ! github.com/r00k/dotfiles ! learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/
27. tilvim.com github.com/jackfranklin/tilvim
28. @Jack_Franklin ! (PS: https://thenetawards.com/) ! (sorry)