Windows

There have been a few patches to vim’s master branch that ensure Vim builds in Visual Studio 2015.aspx). Visual Studio has a free “Community” edition that was introduced last year, and one of the main reasons people are excited about the 2015 RC is Microsoft’s continued…

There’s a really useful resource on r/vim about alternative Vim builds for Windows. The official Vim homepage doesn’t list all the builds that users would like, and this includes 64-bit and extra language bindings.

I noticed patch 7.4.393 has support for improved font rendering in Windows:

Problem: Text drawing on newer MS-Windows systems is suboptimal. Some multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font in Notepad can display them…

Accordion (GitHub: mattboehm / vim-accordion, License: Vim) is a Vim window manager that automatically shrinks vertical split windows so you can focus on the active window. It’s by the same author as Unstack and can be…

VsVim

VsVim (GitHub: jaredpar / VsVim, License: Apache 2.0) by Jared Parsons is an extension for Visual Studio 2010 and above that adds a Vim emulation…

VimSpeak by “AshleyF” is a program that allows you to speak to Vim:

You can say “select three words” to type v3w or "change surrounding brackets to parens" to type cs]) or crazy things like "change occurrences of 'foo' into…

If you’ve managed to fit tabs into your workflow, then you’ve probably noticed curious numbers and signs that appear alongside the truncated filename. It’s very easy to read this information once you know how: the number refers to the number of split windows in a tab, and the +…