Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim by Mike Kozlowski discusses why we love Vim:

Vi is fundamentally built on command composability. It favors small, general-purpose commands that can be combined with objects to compose larger commands. By contrast, Emacs and its…

Ahoy there, fellow binary wrangler. If you work with LLDB and want better Vim integration, then you may want to take a look at Tobias Pflug’s vim-lldb. It’s a fork of LLVM’s Vim plugin — the goal of the fork was to simply remove the pathogen dependency and improve the documentation.

Vim Adventures Quiz

I just discovered a new Vim Adventures game, the Vim Adventures Quiz. This is a smaller challenge where you’re tested on…

Wipeout by Artem Nezvigin is a small plugin that closes all buffers that are not open in any tabs or windows. It’s adapted from this Stack Overflow question.

Patternjump

On reddit there’s a post about managing projects in Vim: How do you load projects?

I recently added a “Project loading” section to my vimrc. I want to load a project in vim quickly. I will cd to the root, run ctags, give custom configurations to a plugin, etc.
I am…

The github-issues.vim (GitHub: jaxbot / github-issues.vim, License: MIT) by Jonathan Warner allows you to look up GitHub issues using Vim. That means the next time you’re writing a commit and want to reference a ticket, you can get completion based on issue numbers.

Markology (GitHub: jeetsukumaran / vim-markology) by Jeet Sukumaran shows marks for the current line in the sign column. Marks can be added, deleted, and toggled, and you can jump between the marks in the current buffer.

Magnum by David Bürgin is a Vimscript implementation of big integers. Vimscript has two numerical types, Numbers and Floats. Number is 32 bit, so anything larger than about two billion (2,147,483,647) will wrap:

let a=2147483647
echo a
" 2147483647

A reader sent in t9md’s GitHub profile, which contains some cool Vim projects:

• vim-choosewin has a tmux-inspired window numbering system
• vim-ezbar is a minimalist status bar plugin
• vim-smalls supports…