I saw people talking about WASD Keyboards because apparently they now sell Vim layouts. WASD Keyboards sells mechanical keyboards, and part of the order process is a detailed customisation stage. You get all kinds of cool options, like switch type (Cherry Blue, Green, etc.), and even…

When in Insert mode, you can trigger completion for a word by using CTRL-P. This cycles forward through the list of matches -- CTRL-N goes backwards. The documentation for the complete (:help 'complete') has options for configuring the behaviour of these commands, and I also wrote about it in Vim 101…

I use netrw a fair bit mainly because of Tim Pope’s vinegar.vim plugin. I press - to see a list of files in the current directory, and then navigate around using Vim shortcuts and search. You can open netrw in a similar way without installing vinegar.vim, just type :e . and you'll see a…

Sometimes I accidentally open a png or jpg with Vim, and it shows me a face-melting representation of the binary data. If you do this enough it gets annoying, so instead I’ve been using Ashish Anand’s image.vim to render ASCII previews of images.

If you’re a fan of NERDTree, patched fonts, and vim-airline, then you might like Ryan L McIntyre’s vim-webdevicons (GitHub: ryanoasis/vim-webdevicons, License: MIT). It adds icons for web development-related file types, and includes things like an image icon, logos for programming…

PyVim (GitHub: jonathanslenders/pyvim) by Jonathan Slenders is a pure Python Vim clone. You can try it out with pip:

pip install pyvim

I installed it on a Mac and it ran fine. Python has some libraries that make a Python Vim clone a worthwhile effort — PyVim uses…