Continuing on from last week’s Vim 101 on tags, another useful element to a tag-based workflow is the preview window (:help preview-window). There's only ever one preview window per tab page, and it can be used to display tag definitions without interruption.

I’m doing a talk about custom motions at the next Vim London meetup, which I’m looking forward to. Why did I pick the topic “custom motions”? Well, mainly because it’ll force the audience to revise modes, operators, motions, and Vim’s grammar.

sensible.vim (License: Vim) by Tim Pope is a selection of default settings:

Think of sensible.vim as one step above 'nocompatible' mode: a universal set of defaults that (hopefully) everyone can agree on.

In On the state of VimClojure, Meikel Brandmeyer recommends using Tim Pope’s foreplay.vim and Sung Pae’s vim-clojure-static as an alternative to VimClojure, because he intends to step back from the project:

“That all said I still have some ideas on Clojure…

Powerline has been rewritten in Python. The old Vim script version is still available at Lokaltog / vim-powerline. There was a discussion last year, Port core code to Python, where Lokaltog (Kim Silkebækken) discussed the merits of porting the core of Powerline to Python. As a result, the same…

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Supertab

Supertab (GitHub: ervandew / supertab, License: BSD) by Eric Van Dewoestine and created by Gergely Kontra is a plugin…

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togglecursor

togglecursor (GitHub: jszakmeister / vim-togglecursor, License: Vim) by John Szakmeister will change the cursor to a…