Shells that use Readline can be set to use vi mode by setting the following in ~/.inputrc:

Here’s an artefact of such unique strangeness that I had to write about it: Actual Vim. It’s a Python script that acts as a bridge between Sublime Text 3 and Vim.

It works like this: a hidden Vim instance is used to manipulate a buffer that Sublime Text…

I’m a search don’t sort kind of guy, so when I was trying to make sense of gigabytes of XML files I instinctively reached for ack. Unfortunately ack struggled with this unholy corpus of legacy drivel. Overhearing my dismay a coworker asked "why aren't you using Silver Searcher?"

Accordion (GitHub: mattboehm / vim-accordion, License: Vim) is a Vim window manager that automatically shrinks vertical split windows so you can focus on the active window. It’s by the same author as Unstack and can be…

November is National Novel Writing Month! On the NaNoWriMo forum, NewMexicoKid started a thread about using Vim for writing:

Starting a new thread on Vim because just today I discovered some power plugins and tools that I hadn’t been aware of before; and that makes me…

One of the things I love about Vim is it has some efficient tag editing features: I use cit (change inner tag) all the time when editing HTML or XML. However, there's always room for improvement. Emmet is a project that brings workflow improvements to editors for…

Björn Winckler has released MacVim builds for Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks): https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/releases. Mavericks is a free upgrade, and as usual Björn won’t be maintaining MacVim for previous releases of Mac OS.

Since I’ve upgraded my Mac…