Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (PDF: sicp.pdf) is a popular book used as an introduction to computer science. It uses MIT Scheme, and covers concepts that are now mainstream concerns, like concurrent programming, functional programming, and lazy evaluation.

Vim Bootstrap is a web app that helps you to quickly generate a new .vimrc. It allows you to select from a list of programming languages, then creates a file that includes the appropriate NeoBundle dependencies.

In Enabling italic fonts in iTerm2, tmux, and vim, Alex Pearce explains the steps required to get italic fonts working in console Vim on a Mac. You’ll need a font that supports italics, like Consolas, and some configuration for iTerm, tmux, and Vim.

Vim-EPUB (GitHub: etnadji / vim-epub, License: GPL) by Etienne Nadji is an eBook editing plugin that makes it easier to work with EPUB files.

For example, :AddEmptyPage adds a new page, :AddEmptyCSS adds a CSS file, and :AddMedia can be used to add image files…

Vimproc (License: MIT) by Shougo is an asynchronous process manager. It’s a fork of Yukihiro Nakadaira’s proc.vim, and requires compilation to run.

How to boost your Vim productivity by Adam Stankiewicz has some thoughtful tips about improving the way you use Vim. The first tip is about changing Leader to the space bar, which Adam says means he can keep his fingers on the home row because space is easy to hit with…

a_indent (GitHub: caigithub / a_indent) by Colin Cai is a plugin for manipulating code blocks. It’s relatively language agnostic because it scans for blocks based on indentation.

VimR Updates

I wrote about VimR a few months ago, but the project is still active and has frequent updates on GitHub.