Use Vim
usevim.com · Group blog · on HN since 2012
Use Vim is a Vim-focused site with tips, tutorials, plugin news, and commentary on Vim and Neovim.
What HN saysHN links it as a practical Vim reference, for tips on remote editing, completion, and mouse use, and for Neovim coverage that sparks fork debate.
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- 3Geoff Greer on NeoVim vs. Vim2 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 4Stop the Vim Configuration Madness1 people · 8 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Vim for GitHub1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 6Oh My Vim1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
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- 8Vim 101: Undo1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9Vim, Instinct, and Muscle Memory1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 10Vim Plugin to highlight Words to Avoid in Tech Writing1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Alternative Ways to Learn Vim1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Vim: Custom Motions1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13The Battle Against Emoji1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 14VIM Script Roundup: Git Gutter, vim-nodejs-complete1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15Vim Builds in Visual Studio 20151 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
alwillis · 2020-07-01
If you’re on your machine, you can do all of your stuff because you can edit files remotely from within Vim using SSH as the transport: http://usevim.com/2012/03/16/editing-remote-files
If you’re on a new machine, you can grab your dotfile repo from wherever you keep it—like GitHub for example—and you’ve got your complete config, since there just text files. Takes 5 minutes.
But even plain vanilla Vim is more than enough for many tasks on a new Unix/Linux box.
e12e · 2016-10-05
For 1: ctrl-n
[ed: a little more context and detail: http://usevim.com/2012/07/06/vim101-completion/ ]
baldfat · 2016-03-14
I just don't like the way this fork happened. I used Vim for 20 years and it really made me mad how Vim was treated. It reminded me of the FFmpeg vs Libav.
Most of the claims from neovim seem over the top and off from factual i.e. vim base code is so bad it is unreliable.
> Every other aspect of Vim is irredeemable. The codebase is atrocious. The plugin API is cumbersome and restrictive. The dev community is apathetic. The benevolent dictator is averse to change. There is no chance of fixing these problems. http://usevim.com/2015/01/16/neovim-better/
imauld · 2015-08-31
Atom has a very similar UI to Sublime so this might interest you:
http://usevim.com/2014/11/26/neovim-msgpack/
judk · 2013-10-03
http://usevim.com/2012/05/16/mouse/
set mouse=a
Or startline,endline command: 10,20d
Lapsa · 2013-08-07
i hacked few bits of ugly code. this patch allows tmux to pass through to terminal 24bit colours (Konsole supports): https://gist.github.com/ArnisL/6156593
combine with: http://usevim.com/2013/05/31/24bit/