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…

This week I tried out Visual Studio Code (VSCode), a new editor from Microsoft that has features focused on web development. One of the cool things about it is it brings IntelliSense to JavaScript developers, and it’s cross platform as well — it supports Mac OS X, Linux, and…

There hasn’t been a Neovim update since last year, so I was pleased to see Newsletter #5 — Out of the Box. This edition has some interesting news about embedding Neovim: there’s a Rust IDE called SolidOak that uses an embedded Neovim, and a new Mac OS X GUI for…

The author of color_coded has really gone the extra mile to implement more semantic highlighting for the C family of languages. To provide real-time tagless highlighting, it actually uses a self-contained clang 3.6.0 (due to bugs in clang). It…

If you’re searching for the perfect Vim TypeScript plugin, then there’s a new one called Tsuquyomi (GitHub: Quramy/tsuquyomi, License: MIT) by Yosuke Kurami. It uses TSServer, which comes with TypeScript, and provides omni completion, symbol navigation, compiler errors, and…

If you use readline’s Vim mode, then you might be interested in athame. This project is a patch for readline that embeds Vim, so you can use Vim’s full editing capabilities rather than the more limited vi-mode subset that readline provides.

Primary (GitHub: google/vim-colorscheme-primary) by Lisie Michel at Google is a colour scheme based on Google’s branding. The GUI version uses Google’s exact colours, while the 256 and 8 colour versions are approximations.