I think apps like iA Writer are cool — the idea is to remove all unnecessary GUI chrome to allow the author to focus on the content:

As soon as you type the title bar disappears and all you see is the clean typing sheet, distraction-free, ready for your ideas to…

EditorConfig is an editor-agnostic file format for defining coding styles. It allows multiple editors to use the same settings. That means if you’re working in Vim, but you sometimes switch to an IDE like Visual Studio, then you can keep the same coding style between editors.

VsVim

VsVim (GitHub: jaredpar / VsVim, License: Apache 2.0) by Jared Parsons is an extension for Visual Studio 2010 and above that adds a Vim emulation…

Thai Pangsakulyanont sent in vim-arpeggio (GitHub: kana / vim-arpeggio, License: MIT/X), by Kana Natsuno. It can be used by setting up aliases. For example, :Arpeggio inoremap fun function, allows the keys fun to…

Snake Vim Trainer

Snake Vim Trainer (GitHub: patmood / vim_snake) by Patrick Moody is cool for three reasons:

Bbye (GitHub: moll / vim-bbye, License: Affero GPL) by Andri Möll allows buffers to be closed without changing Vim’s window layout:

Vim by default closes all windows that have the buffer…

fixkey (GitHub: drmikehenry / vim-fixkey, License: Vim) by Michael Henry helps console Vim access metakeys that are usually difficult to map correctly.