Vim As My IDE

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• Entry #1: Topic Intro

  Fri, 04 May 2012:

  Growing up, I used Notepad. Then some MS Visual studios and Eclipse. I went on to use Notepad++ for c programming, then progressed back into text-based IDE's by trying out Emacs.
  While Emacs made my pinky sore, VIM... well, I just fell in love with vim.

  
  I focused a solid few weeks doing everything in vim, even though the learning curve was steep. I kept the keyboard cheat sheet nearby and drudged on. Now the VIM-style keyboard navigation is second nature and is a lot more efficient and less frustrating then reaching over for that retched mouse.

  I've added a few plugins since then, and hope to progress into creating my own macros and things..

  so far, my favorite plugins have been NERD tree and NERD Commenter. With a few more settings to the .vimrc I got syntax highlighting and more~

  
  In this log topic, I plan to talk about Vim configurations and plugins... and my efforts in becoming a Vim master~

  
  

• Entry #2: My Vim Configurations in a Github Repo

  Sat, 05 May 2012:

  I have added my vim configurations to github at:

  https://github.com/neildaemond/np-vim

  feel free to check it out~

  
  

• Entry #3: update_bundles Script Can now Handle Hg (Mercurial) Repos

  Mon, 02 Jul 2012:

  I modified the update bundles script which I use to manage my vim plugins (along with Tim Pope's pathogen) so that it can download plugins which are held in hg repositories.

  I needed to do this in order to have it get the autcomplpop plugin which will allow popup autocompletion while coding. to use this plugin I had to also download the L9 Library which is written by the same author and held in a hg repo on bitbucket. my vim configs are in my git repo:

  https://github.com/neildaemond/np-vim

  
  

• Entry #4: Time to branch my generic Vim setup

  Wed, 28 Aug 2013:

  Since my last post, I've been trying different programming languages, and different vim modules & settings to accomodate those. I currently have a generic vim setup, which is getting mixed up as I switch between different 'modes' of development.

  Coming soon, I'll create different vim profiles so that I can easily switch between the different 'mode' I'm in.

  For each mode, I'll make a new git repository, define custom code snippets for autocompletion and pick focused modules.

  I am going to need a way to easily switch between these profiles on my computer as well.