The document discusses the speaker's recommendations for using Vim effectively. It provides tips for incrementally learning Vim, using GUI or terminal versions, remapping keys like Caps Lock and spacebar, useful plugins for tasks like navigation and code editing, and specific plugin recommendations from developers like tpope and scrooloose. The speaker's favorite tip is to remap Caps Lock to Esc.

1. Vim Talk!
08/01/2011

2. Who am I?
● Brian Racer
● http://brianracer.com
● @anveo
● http://github.com/anveo/dotfiles
I have been using vim on a daily basis for about 5 years

3. Learn VIM Incrementally
● start slow
● use a few ideas at a time until you
have committed them to muscle memory or
internalized them

4. Should I use the Terminal or gVim/MacVim?
● I prefer the GUI clients
● Nicer colors
● No terminal binding clashes
● MacVim has a nice fullscreen mode
● However, I want GUI vim to *look* like a terminal window
○ remove all the chrome

5. Example of superior GUI color
● colorcolumn
● line overflow

7. My FAVORITE Tip!
Swap your Caps Lock and Esc keys!
● you never use your caps lock key
● useful outside of vim!

8. Remap Spacebar
● apparently I have weak pinkies and strain my wrists trying to
make a colon
noremap <Space> :

9. Understand :paste mode
nmap <F3> :set paste<CR>
nmap <F4> :set nopaste<CR>

10. Keep <leader><leader> free for misc tasks
:map ,, :ruby %<cr>

11. Quick ruby helpers
● symbol-ize a word
● hash-rocket

12. Useful Vim Plugins

13. NERDTree
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

14. buffexplorer vs. minibufexpl
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?
script_id=42
(use buffexplorer)

15. SuperTab continued
https://github.com/ervandew/supertab
Be sure to use the above version! SuperTab on vim.org has been discontinued.

16. snipMate.vim
https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim
● I suggest ignoring the snippets that are provided
● bind a command to opening your snippet and reloading the snippets

17. matchit
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.
php?script_id=39

18. Command-T
https://wincent.com/products/command-t
● fast file navigation
● build with system ruby (rvm use system)
● matches entire file path unlike textmate

19. ack.vim
http://betterthangrep.com/
https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
● better than vim's grep
● better than remapping vim's grep to ack

20. zoomWin.vim
http://mysite.verizon.
net/astronaut/vim/index.html#ZOOMWIN

21. interactive_editor
https://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor
● gem install 'interactive_editor'
● require in ~/.irbrc

22. sparkup.vim
https://github.com/rstacruz/sparkup
● ZenCoding for vim
● selector expansion
● element expansion

23. Tim Pope scripts
https://github.com/tpope

24. ragtag.vim
https://github.com/tpope/vim-ragtag

25. rails.vim
https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails

26. endwise
https://github.com/tpope/vim-
endwise

27. surround
https://github.com/tpope/vim-
surround

28. repeat
https://github.com/tpope/vim-repeat

29. fugitive.vim
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
● Amazing git integration within vim
● Too awesome for this presentation
● See vimcasts for a 5 part series on this plugin

30. pathogen
https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
● More sane organization of plugins
● Kind-of a bundler for vim
● Makes it easy to try new plugins

31. </tpope>

32. gundo
http://sjl.bitbucket.org/gundo.vim/
https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim
● requires vim 7.3
● vim must have python support

33. syntastic
https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/

34. NERDCommentor
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenter