Tag: VIM

I have a thing for full-screen text editing. I use WriteMonkey for my creative writing needs, and VIM in a full-screen PuTTY session for my Web development work. That being the case, I'm all over the monospace, dark-background, focused editing scene. OmmWriter attempts to take that aesthetic and make it somehow more spiritual, with three picturesque backgrounds and ambient background audio ...

Vimium is an incredible Chrome add-on for keyboard-only Web navigation. Its basic shortcuts are modeled after those used in the ubergeek-oriented Vim text editor. The idea behind Vimium is that all of the most common actions (scrolling up and down, switching tabs, zooming) can be done using keys that are either on the home row of the keyboard, or otherwise very easy to reach (such as "zi" for ...

The Chrome Extension Gallery push is on, and we're finally starting to see some solid add-on options cropping up for Google's web browser. If you're the type who eschews the mouse or trackpad in favor of keyboard-fu, you owe it to yourself to check out the Vimlike Smoozie [translated] extension. It's similar to Vimperator for Firefox in that it adds a number of keystroke-driven controls to ...

MacVim is a port of the popular open-source text editor Vim for Mac OS X. It supports tabs, full-screen editing, and transparent backgrounds. The toolbar is also helpful as it provides easy access to save files, run vim scripts, make a project, save/load sessions, and undo editing. MacVim also has handy syntax highlighting to make editing/reading text files easier on the eyes. If you need to ...

Venerable open source text editor Vim has reached a new milestone today with the release of Vim 7. New in version 7 are as-you-type spellcheck, document tabs, intelligent tab completion, branching undo/redo, and more. Linux.com has a nice overview of some of the new features, or you can head straight to the Vim web site to download it for just about every platform. [Via Slashdot] ...