Geoff Greer has been writing about Vim and the issues with its codebase, and how NeoVim aims to fix everything. He wrote Floobits for Vim, which is a collaborative editing plugin. During the development of Floobits, Geoff ran into several issues that were caused by Vim’s…

Haskell Vim IDE

Over the last few years there has been an increasing amount of accessible documentation for Haskell. For example, the Learn You a…

One of the reasons I started using Vim for serious work was cross-platform support. It felt weird investing time learning editors that were only available for Windows or Mac OS. Recently some strong arguments in support of Neovim have made me use it more regularly in Unix, but I never even…

PacVim

You’re a green cursor that must highlight words whilst avoiding red G characters. Welcome to PacVim, a game for learning Vim by Jamal Moon.

Most of us collect fragments in our vimrc files without ever considering best practices. Anti-pattern of vimrc by rbtnn lists some common mistakes with the fixed alternatives.

The author suggests that it’s better to use strict options instead of mixing in…

Permut (GitHub: jlemetay/permut, License: Vim) by JYLM is a plugin for swapping columns in a text-formatted table. It requires that a common column separator character is used, and the default is |.

DidYouMean.vim (GitHub: EinfachToll/DidYouMean, License: MIT) by Daniel Schemala is a small plugin that prompts for the correct filename instead of opening a new file. It’s ideal if you often type a partial filename, press tab, then accidentally open a new file because multiple filenames matched.

Area 51 Vim Stack Exchange is Back

There was a Vim Stack Exchange experiment last year, and then it was closed despite receiving the…