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1. PIMP ZHNG YOUR VIM
make your vim really powerful ah!

2. CALVIN CHENG
www.calvinx.com
www.od-eon.com/blogs/calvin

3. 1 What is Simi si vim?
2 Installing vim
3 The Basics

4. 4 git + pathogen + vim
5 python + vim
6
Compile source

5. 7 Funny vim

6. 1
What is Simi si vim?

7. Simple, powerful, customizable text editor

9. 2
Installing vim

10. Linux: binary via package managers or compile from source
Mac OS X (unix-style OS): via package managers or compile from source
Windows binary or compile from source
or just hop over to http://www.vim.org/
Example:
sudo aptitude install vim
sudo pacman -S vim
sudo port install vim

11. 3
The Basics

12. Start point for beginners
vimtutor

13. Modes you will become familiar with
normal mode
visual mode
select mode
operator pending mode
insert mode
command-line mode

14. Customization (Where you begin ‘zhng-ing’)
.vimrc
.vim directory

16. 4
git + pathogen + vim

17. What is pathogen.vim?
Manage your runtime paths
Clean organization of your vim plugins
No more manual plugin upgrades!

19. Getting infected with pathogen
Install to ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
How:
mkdir -p ~/.vim/{autoload,bundle}
curl -so ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim
https://raw.github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/HEAD/autoload/pathogen.vim

20. Getting infected with pathogen
Add this to your .vimrc file:
call pathogen#infect()

21. Managing plugins with git - super easy!
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git

22. Some of my favorite plugins
Conque-Shell
IndentAnything
fugitive
nerdcommenter
nerdtree
python.vim
django.vim
vim-javascript
mxml.vim

23. 5
python + vim

24. You know the drill...
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/vim-scripts/python.vim--Vasiliev.git python.vim

25. Not just Python syntax/indentation support

27. 6
compile vim from source

28. Default binary package may not have all features
+clipboard
+X11
+python
+python3
+ruby
... etc

29. Take matters into your own hands!
Compile from source
Traditional compilation, download package, ./configure [option]
Or if you use linux OSes with powerful build tools (e.g. ABS for
Arch, emerge/ebuild for Gentoo)
Specify specific features/options to be enabled during
compilation, e.g. in PKGBUILD for arch

30. 7
Funny vim

31. Great community, Great sense of humor
:help 42
:help!
:help quotes
:help holy-grail

32. Great community, Great sense of humor
#vim on irc freenode
http://vim.wikia.com

33. Stefan Talpalaru Liviu Bogdan Chiributa Chng Nai Yun That’s Me! :-)
+ ........

34. Questions and Discussion welcome!
calvin.cheng@od-eon.com