My mental landscape is dotted with the decaying husks of half-learned programming languages. The latest of these is Elixir, a functional programming language built on Erlang VM:

It is a dynamic language with flexible syntax with macros support that leverages Erlang’s…

Reader Sri Kadimisetty wrote in to ask for a guide to Unite (GitHub: Shougo / unite.vim, License: MOT) by Matsu Shougo. It has been compared to FuzzyFinder and ctrlp.vim, but it’s actually quite different, which is partly why people seem to find it confusing.

Earlier this week I wrote Beginner’s Guide to Unite, which was an attempt to demystify the popular Unite plugin. I noticed people grumbling on Reddit that it didn’t contain any installation instructions.

Git Shade (GitHub: joeytwiddle / git_shade.vim) by Paul Clark is a GUI mode plugin that adds colour highlights based on changes in Git’s history. It has some configuration options for colours, and…

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Shootingstar

Shootingstar (GitHub: jceb / vim-shootingstar, License: Vim) by Jan Christoph Ebersbach is based in the star command…

Techlive Zheng sent in an update for MiniBufExpl (GitHub: techlivezheng / vim-plugin-minibufexpl. This is an old plugin that has passed between several authors, but continues to be popular…

Vimprint

Vimprint (GitHub: nelstrom / vimprint) by Drew Neil is a Vim keystroke parser written with Ruby. Given suitable Vim commands as input, it can…

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Origami

Origami (GitHub: kshenoy / vim-origami, License: _MIT/X11) by Kartik Shenoy is a plugin for working with folds. It can align foldmarkers…