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- Recommended by 4 people: 3 on Hacker News and 1 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2015 to 2021.
- Presented by George Brocklehurst
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
228K views11 years ago4 recommendations
Tools and practiceVim, Emacs and editorsDeveloper productivity
George Brocklehurst demonstrates Vim's built-in completion mechanisms, including word, line, and block completion, as well as ctags integration.
George Brocklehurst shows Vim's various built-in completion mechanisms. This will let us let Vim do the typing, writing fewer typos and faster! Learn more from the developers at thoughtbot ⌨️ Head over to tbot.io/dev-blog to read more great articles on our blog.Why it's here
4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended by engineers for making Vim's powerful built-in completion system click.
raman162on Hacker News • Recommends
On “Happy birthday Vim (2020)”
I've only used vim for three years and it's been a fantastic experience. Every time I'm in a normal editor I long for vim. I think the most important video I watched about vim was about text completion in a thoughtbot meetup 0. There I learned about ctags, the jumplist and ways to complete words, sentences, lines and blocks of code. 0: link to this video
AdmiralAsshaton Hacker News • Recommends
On “Switching to Sublime Text from Vim in 2017”
To go to the reverse route, I'm a SublimeText and Vim user that's debating going back to pure vim. Much of the functionality that I used ST for I found Vim could do naturally, with no plugins. This presentation taught me alot ( link to this video ), such as basic command completion. There is some stuff that Sublime can still do that I don't think Vim can (multi-cursor editing comes to mind, and that's still really handy when I'm making edits to HTML). Other stuff can be done by both but I happen to like ST's better (the awesome GitHub package comes to mind). And finally, I did pay $70 for an ST license, so I imagine I'll keep using it for another few years or so. But given that I do alot of remote admi…
justinmkon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Vim after 15 Years”
There's a lot of engineering in Vim as well. E.g., Vim's completion system is actually real cool once you learn it (it "clicked" for me after watching this video: link to this video ). Vim regex, folding, and spellcheck also have useful features that you won't find anywhere else. More generally, I agree with you. If it were up to me I would prefer to use Emacs as a baseline. But it's not up to me, just like it wasn't up to Google to decide that Javascript wins. Ubiquity wins. Emacs lost. > for throwing everything and the kitchen sink into our editor. ... But with vim & neovim, people are building a complex operating environment That's not really true. The explicit goal of Nvim is to be embedded and foc…