If you consider yourself a bit of a polyglot, then managing lots of syntax files can get annoying. For example, I have plugins for CoffeeScript, Markdown, Jade, CSS pre-preprocessors, and Clojure. I think this situation is pretty common for web developers who use Vim. Even though Vim has some pretty…

fzf: Fuzzy Finder for the Shell

fzf by Junegunn Choi is a ctrlp.vim-inspired Ruby script that allows you to find shell commands with a…

I recently read Vim for people who think things like Vim are weird and hard by Harry Roberts, a post that attempts to explain why Vim is worth learning:

I’d watch friends using Vim and be perplexed as to why you’d possibly…

Toyama Satoshi has created a vim-swift project that adds support for Swift’s syntax highlighting and indentation.

Swift is Apple’s new programming language that is REPL friendly and has some innovative “playground” features in the new Xcode.

Merginal (GitHub: idanarye / vim-merginal) by Idan Arye is a Git branch merge tool. It has an interactive UI for viewing branches, checking out branches, merging branches, and solving merge conflicts.

A reader sent in vim-autoformat, which uses external programs to format code. The default formatprograms include formatters for C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python.

Vimbed (GitHub: ardagnir / vimbed, License: MIT) by James Kolb is a script to make it easier to run Vim in the background when you want to embed Vim in another program.

If you’re writing CSS and can’t remember what browsers support a given feature, then you probably switch to a browser and open caniuse.com. A new alternative is caniuse.vim (GitHub: zoeesilcock /…