vim

My editor of choice whenever I can’t use TextMate, simply due to the fact that I find it extremely efficient (and readily available everyhwere).

There’s even a vi Input Manager for Mac OS X OS X , which means that I can now edit text anywhere in Cocoa apps with the same muscle memory…

Cheat Sheets

For newbies, taken from this graphical vi-vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial:

The full sheet is here.

Resources:

• jsvi, a JavaScript implementation. Yes, it’s insane.
• vimperator, a Firefox extension that makes it look and behave like vim.
• Vim (heart) Mac , a way to integratevimwith just about any Mac application.
• Syntax highlighting file for Dreamweaver templates
• Efficient Editing with vim
• Native version for Mac OS X OS X (I don’t use it, since you pick up all sorts of nasty menu habits that won’t help you one whit when you’re working remotely)
• Seven Habits Of Effective Text Editing
• vim.org
• Keyword Completion
• The vim Outliner
• Vigor , the Office paperclip forvi

Using vim as a man pager (useful for obscure UNIX variants):

export MANPAGER="col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -"

Also of note is vimdiff, which everyone keeps forgetting about.

Useful Snippets

$ cat .vimrc
set textwidth=0
set formatoptions=1
set lbr
set wrap