Fonts

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…

In Enabling italic fonts in iTerm2, tmux, and vim, Alex Pearce explains the steps required to get italic fonts working in console Vim on a Mac. You’ll need a font that supports italics, like Consolas, and some configuration for iTerm, tmux, and Vim.

Mac OS X: Mountain Lion has been released, which comes complete with lots of new features and security improvements. One minor annoyance, particularly relevant to Vim users, is the handling of emoji glyphs. Emoji are pictographs often available on mobile devices that have started to…