Change your Editor

A programmer's most used tool is his text editor. You should choose it wisely.

This presentation was held at Devhouse Friday in Cologne by Dirk Breuer (@railsbros_dirk) and Lucas Dohmen (@moonbeamlabs).

Transcript

1. Change your Editor A personal report* *and some hints DevHouseFriday, 27.7.2012 @adcloud
2. Reasons to Switch • More/Better features • Increase Productivity • To learn something new • It’s a Challenge
3. More/Better Features • Does another Editor really have more features? • It is more likely it has some other features which are better. • “Better” in the sense of “Better suited for your workflow”
4. Increase Productivity • First you will have a productivity drop • Learn the new way • Surpass your old productivity
5. 0 % 25 % 50 % 75 % 100 % Time → Productivity Switch Try to type a word
6. Learn to type fast!
7. Choose Your Weapon
9. 6 % 7 % 9 % 17 % 29 % 33 % Vim Sublime Text 2 TextMate (1 + 2) Ruby Mine Emacs Other Quelle: http://gopollgo.com/what-is-your-primary-text-editor-for-ruby-slash-rails 8679 Votes
10. Sublime Text 2 • ”TextMate Successor“ • Impressing Features • Really Fast • Multi Platform • … but may go the TM-way, too … • Same for ChocolatApp (but it‘s Mac Only and maybe less impressive)
11. IDE, emacs … • Personal preference, not the topic today • Great Discussion: http://gist.io/3172393
13. Getting into the Mode
14. • Modes are hard to get into • ... and the reason for a lot of flamewars against Vim • ... and one of its best features
15. • How much time do you spend writing code? • ... and how much reading, deleting, manipulating it? • That‘s why you have modes in Vim.
16. Configuring your editor is like crafting your own lightsaber Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkthirty/55670682/
17. Dotfiles • Learn & Steal from other people‘s configuration • dotfiles.github.com • github.com/railsbros-dirk/dotfiles • github.com/moonglum/dotfiles
18. Recommendations
19. Vundle " In .vimrc Bundle 'tpope/vim-surround' :BundleInstall! https://github.com/gmarik/vundle/
20. Useful plugins • surround.vim - Surrounds text objects with nearly everything • fugitive.vim - “a Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal” • tcomment_vim - Comment Toggling • snipmate - Snippets for Vim • Maybe take a look into everything Tim Pope created for Vim ;-)
21. NERDTree • Better Directory Tree • Project Aware
23. Fuzzy-Finder • ctrlp.vim • Command-T
24. scrooloose/syntastic
25. Plugins • On vim.org/scripts there are over 4000 scripts for you to browse
26. Wie schon gesagt, Vim ist für UNIX. Es macht sehr viel Sinn sich mehr mit UNIX auseinanderzusetzen und zu verwenden.
27. TextMate is native to Mac OS X, Vim is native to Unix
28. • `!CMD` executes a shell command • `r !CMD` executes a shell command and writes the output into the file • Use % to reference the current file
29. Further Reading
30. carlhuda/janus
31. vim-adventures.com
32. http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim
33. Peepcode https://peepcode.com/products/smash-into-vim-ii https://peepcode.com/products/smash-into-vim-i
35. Destroy All Software Screencasts
36. vimgolf.com
37. :help
38. :qall • @moonbeamlabs – Lucas Dohmen • @railsbros_dirk – Dirk Breuer