cVim: Vim for Chrome

cVim (GitHub: 1995eaton / chromium-vim, License: MIT) by Jake Eaton is a Chrome extension that makes Chrome behave like…

Save to Evernote Using Geeknote

If you’re an Evernote fan who prefers writing in Vim, then you may like Geeknote (GitHub…

smartpairs (GitHub: gorkunov / smartpairs.vim, License: wtfpl) by Alexander Gorkunov is a plugin for visually selecting ranges based on brackets or quotes, without needing to type the brackets or quotes. So rather…

vimdir.vim (GitHub: c0r73x / vimdir.vim, License: MIT) by Christian Persson is a plugin that allows you to manage files and directories in Vim. You can list files and folders recursively with :VimdirR, and then edit the buffer to change the layout of the filesystem.

It turns out there won’t be a Vim Stack Exchange (see my previous post).

We recently launched an Emacs site, and the Vi/Vim community quickly followed to have a site of their own. The show of support here was nothing short of amazing. It weighed heavily in our…

Keith Smiley at thoughtbot published a detailed about writing syntax plugins. He’s been adding support for Swift to Vim, and has written up all of the steps you need to make Vim support a new language: file type detection (ftdetect), Vim script execution based on file type…

Improved Incremental Searching

incsearch.vim (GitHub: haya14busa / incsearch.vim, License: MIT) by haya14busa is an improved incremental…