Vim, the steroids powered *nix text editor, is a must for geek, power users, and programmers, but what about the normal people. Vim isn’t easy and it’s really basic, no frills, no deep functionalities, but Vim has a world of plugins behind. Let’s see which plugins fit the needs of the normal people and how is Vim for dummies. Vim[…]
Read moreIf you use Vim as every-day text editor on your *nix system, you could find an annoying behaviour in editing Crontab. Everytime you use the crontab command, you’re pushed into the Nano editor and you forced to use it. Modify your shell configuration file to get Vim as Crontab editor The solution is simple, you only need to update[…]
Read moreVim was originally released for the Amiga, Vim has since been developed to be cross-platform, supporting many other platforms. Howm is lightweight, X11 tiling window manager that behaves like Vim. Howm configuration is pretty much stock, aside from the colour of the borders.
Read moreVim – the ubiquitous text editor Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X. Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Among its features are: persistent, multi-level undo tree,[…]
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