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…

Tim Pope has just released a new plugin called Flagship (GitHub: tpope/vim-flagship, License: Vim). It makes customising the status line and tab line much easier, and other plugins can extend it as well. For example, if you’ve got fugitive.vim installed, then you should see the current Git branch in the status…

Thiago de Arruda posted about a new UI protocol for Neovim that aims to improve the amount of control native apps have over embedded Neovim:

The smart UI protocol will separate the drawing of window contents and other user interface elements such as…

I’ve seen some tools that map from Vim GUI themes to console, but what about the other way around? A reader sent in vim cterm2gui2cterm (GitHub: 97–109–107/vim_cterm2gui2cterm), a tool that maps from console themes to GUI themes and back again.

Xcode has Vim emulation plugins, but you can get by quite nicely with Vim and xcodebuild. If you want better code navigation, however, what do you do? Colin Drake has written an article about using ctags for iOS development:

With implementation files, header files, and…

vim-tag-comment (GitHub: mvolkmann/vim-tag-comment, License: MIT) is another small but useful plugin by Mark Volkmann. This one adds/removes XML comments, but instead of adding a comment to each line it’ll use one multi-line comment instead.