More Vim Tricks and Resources
There’s a good article at Ars Technica talking about even more ways to trick out your Vim text editor. It includes links to:
- platform-specific desktop GUI versions (win32/linux: GVim; Mac OS: MacVim)
- MiniBufExplorer add-on
- Automatic text completion via Omnicompletion
- Vim wiki
- script repository
- other add-ons for IDE-like behavior or a more simple text-editor behavior for new users
Worth checking out if you spend your day moving through code.
Note: any attempts to turn this into a vi vs. emacs discussion will be suppressed mercilessly.
Tags: Ars Technica, vi, vim
May 27th, 2009 at 5:18 am
One plugin that I like that wasn’t mentioned in the article is NERDTree: http://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree/tree/master . It gives you a hierarchical view of the filesystem in the sidebar, and it’s similar in spirit to emacs’ speedbar. It’s quite useful for navigating through big filesystem hierarchies.