Tutorial

ShellCheck is a static analysis tool for shell scripts. Shell scripting isn’t necessarily difficult, but the syntax is hard to get the hang of, particularly if you rarely write shell scripts. ShellCheck is a Haskell program that runs through your scripts and provides warnings and suggestions for…

Sri Kadimisetty has been working on Vim video tutorials at Vim.Watch. They’re short, five minute tutorials that are focused on a single topic or command. For example, sesionoptions covers Vim’s session management features.

If you enjoy these and want to see more Vim video tutorials, I also noticed MinuteVimTricks posted a new video two weeks ago.

Keith Smiley at thoughtbot published a detailed about writing syntax plugins. He’s been adding support for Swift to Vim, and has written up all of the steps you need to make Vim support a new language: file type detection (ftdetect), Vim script execution based on file type…

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (PDF: sicp.pdf) is a popular book used as an introduction to computer science. It uses MIT Scheme, and covers concepts that are now mainstream concerns, like concurrent programming, functional programming, and lazy evaluation.

Peer to Peer

Peer to Peer has launched! This is a service by Drew Neil of Vimcasts. The idea is that an expert demonstrates how they solve problems…

Learning Vim in 2014: Vim as Language is one of a series of posts by Ben McCormick about learning “modern” Vim. It takes the approach of describing Vim in terms of grammar, which I think was nicely encapsulated by the famous You Don’t Grok Vi comment on StackOverflow.

I recently read Vim for people who think things like Vim are weird and hard by Harry Roberts, a post that attempts to explain why Vim is worth learning:

I’d watch friends using Vim and be perplexed as to why you’d possibly…