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VimConf
- davedx 15y ago550 lines of css! I hope he has ctags :)
- petercooper 15y agoSeparate to Vim, this concept should become more popular. Real world conferences have their place, for sure, but some topics are avoided as they probably wouldn't break even, and seeing more things like this would be great.
- joeybeninghove 15y agoTotally agree Peter! Having given a couple webinars over the past few weeks, I think there is still a lot of room to grow for these types of online events! I'm hoping this sparks interest in other online conferences in those smaller niche subjects that historically may not have drawn a crowd to a physical location.
- joeybeninghove 15y agoIn fact, that's one of the reasons I'm working on building CastingCode.tv (http://castingcode.tv http://castingcode.tv) as a platform to serve both ad-hoc and organized live coding events to the web. :)
- Jasber 15y agoThis is a cool idea. After watching notch I'd love to be able to watch how other developers work.
- Omnipresent 15y agoI'm looking forward to this as well. You did a great job on the Backbone.js screencast
- wingerlang 15y agoAre you the same creator as vimconf? The sites look alike and so did the emails (subject atleast, did not open). Are you the submitter of this? Why two different usernames if so. And why promote them both??
- joeybeninghove 15y agoI am indeed the same person behind both CastingCode.tv and VimConf. However, I did not submit this VimConf article to HN. That was done by somebody else and I had no idea it was being submitted, so it took me by surprise.
- sleight42 15y agoNice one, Joey. We'll have to discuss this at Ruby DCamp!
- joeybeninghove 15y agoAbsolutely! Looks like I'm going to need all the help I can get! :D
- technomancy 15y agoRelevant: http://pair.io http://pair.io Couple that with a mailing list and a mumble server and you'd be set, I think.
- illuminated 15y agoWhen I saw the URL my first thought was that it's a collaborative repo of vim's conf files, snippets, etc...
- wingerlang 15y agoSigned up. Id like to use vim since i like the concept but it seems so damn hard to get into. The post yesterday "learn vim progressively" was interesting though. Not sure i know what it is though. I really like VS debugger and programming in C#, C++ (both with VS). So, what exactly will i give up if i switch to vim?
- jamenzin 15y agoI recently took the plunge. I had been using e-TextEditor for everything but .NET, and VS for .NET. Now I'm using gVim for the majority of my editing for all languages I am working in. However, I still use Visual Studio with ReSharper for certain things: debugging, intellisense (only when I'm stuck; I'm trying not to rely on it much. you can also use vim plugins or create your own to let you quickly jump to MSDN and find something), and editing project/solution configuration. Alternatively, you could use ViEmu (emulator plugin for VS, amongst other MS things), but I like the split buffers so I haven't gone down that path. In summary, I don't think it's an all or nothing deal. You should use the best tools for the job. I think using Vim will make you more productive for plenty, but not all tasks.
- Will_Price 15y agoI might be wrong here as I'm relatively new to vim and haven't used VS, but I'm pretty sure omnicompletion is the equivalent of intellisense in vim, http://vnfiles.ign.com/ects/css-tricks/VideoCast-101.mov http://vnfiles.ign.com/ects/css-tricks/VideoCast-101.mov
- gerds 15y agoIntelliSense knows the library, omnicompletion just autocompletes similar words in the current file.
- Will_Price 15y agoAh ok, thanks for the correction.
- PedroCandeias 15y agoCool idea. Signed up. I've been using vim just for editing config files remotely and now I'd like to start exploring it a bit more.
- dadro 15y agoThis event looks promising. Interacting with other Vim users really helped me get over the initial Vim learning curve. For any devs that use OSX and want to test the Vim waters, checkout Vico (http://www.vicoapp.com http://www.vicoapp.com). It is a Textmate-esque editor with Vim bindings.
- almost 15y agoI'm an Emacs user but I'm really curious about modal editing and composability of Vim commands. Signed up!
- d0m 15y agoSigned up and I spread the word :) Great initiative!
- rudle 15y agoAs far as topics are concerned, I'd really like to see a vim plugin created from start to finish. The tutorials and docs that exist leave a lot to be desired, and this seems like a nice venue to demonstrate (and explain!) the capabilities of the vim plugin system.
- sasha-dv 15y agoWhile this is an excellent topic for advanced vim users, I suspect that the majority of us would benefit more from a "Beyond the basics" topic. I'm comfortable with using vim to edit files now and then, but for that role any editor will do. Now I'm willing to invest some time to learn how to harness the full power of vim. Signed up.
- swaroop 15y agoThere is a chapter on Vim scripting in my online book, please take a look and let me know your feedback - http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim_en:Scripting http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim_en:Scripting
- davidbalbert 15y agoI am so excited about this! Watching other people use vim has been the most valuable part of my vim education. I think this is going to be a great venue for it. Edit: I'm also clueless when it comes to vimscript. It would be nice to see some stuff on that.
- Omnipresent 15y agoI know this is off topic but would you mind sharing how you created a special link that can be passed to earn credit? Are there plugins/gems for something like this or was this made from scratch?
- derickbailey 15y agojoey built the landing page with http://kickofflabs.com http://kickofflabs.com - it handles all of that stuff automatically. highly recommended if you want to put together a landing page and get sign ups / interest in your idea
- swatermasysk 15y agoVimconf is currently running on www.kickofflabs.com (I am a co-founder). The link sharing is a recent feature addition.
- xbryanx 15y agoAnyone know some Vim luminaries who'd be good "keynote" speakers/demo-ers? I'd vote for Drew Neil - http://vimcasts.org/about http://vimcasts.org/about
- wyclif 15y agoTim Pope.
- stevelosh 15y agoI'd love Tim Pope to do a presentation about creating Vim plugins.
- Will_Price 15y agoDerek Wyatt
- andrewl 15y agoDamian Conway. He did a great series on Vim at IBM Developerworks. The first one is at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...
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- binaryjohn 15y agoGary Bernhardt, just a taste: http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/11/screencast-custom-vim-refactorings.html http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/11/screencast-custom-vim-re... for the full monty: http://vimeo.com/7642937 http://vimeo.com/7642937
- nclark 15y agobill joy?
- astrofinch 15y agoI've never understood people's obsession with vim. I used it for a few months, then timed myself doing the same tasks with vim and gedit. Gedit was faster by a significant margin.
- Marwy 15y agoDo you mind telling what was faster? I'm really curious.
- astrofinch 15y agoThe vim tutorial. Click-and-type is really quite fast once you try to master it. Double-click to select a token, triple-click to select a line, etc. On a laptop (or on a Kinesis Advantage (awesome ergonomic keyboard) with a center-mounted touchpad) the mouse isn't much of a context switch.
- Daishiman 15y agoWhen you actually master Vim and all its motions it's astoundingly fast.
- astrofinch 15y agoI mastered most of the more commonly known motions, including most of the ones on this page (http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/ http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...) and some that aren't on it. It didn't seem to be delivering the promised efficiency improvements, so now I only use it for git commit messages, line editing in zsh, and file processing with macros (which are pretty nice--best way I know of to reformat data; much easier than writing a script). I don't think it was worth it--should have shipped product instead and used nano for my command line editing needs.
- ElbertF 15y agoTry incrementing a number on 500 lines of text. Or stripping trailing whitespace on save. Or fixing the indentation of a large file. Vim is really powerful when it comes to text manipulation.
- ferengi31337 15y agoDoes it strike anyone else as a bit funny that a promoter of vim would send HTML e-mail?
- duck 15y agoI write HTML in vim all the time. :-)
- preek 15y agoCool idea, as a 10a+ user of VIM, I wanted to sign up. Unfortunately my 'email does not seem to be valid'.
- joeybeninghove 15y agoYes, sorry about that preek. I am currently working with my provider to get the email issue resolved. Keep an eye on @vimconf and I will update everyone once it gets fixed. Thanks!