Coming from TextMate and starting out with plain Vim means starting out unproductive. In "Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong", Yehuda Katz, co-author of Janus (and Ruby on Rails, jQuery etc), echoes my experience. He describes a setup with MacVim, a port of Vim that is well-integrated with OS X and Janus, a "MacVim distro", or set of plugins and ready-made configurations. Then about a month ago, I read Daniel Fischer's "A Starting Guide to VIM from TextMate". I'd feel unproductive enough that I couldn't make myself continue. You can have both these things in Vim, but they were tricky to set up or to grasp. In TextMate, I would use ⌘T to quickly jump to a deeply-nested file by name, or use project-wide search to get it by content. ![]() It was less about the weird modal model (slicing and dicing text in command mode, writing new text in insert mode) and more that I couldn't get to the right file fast enough. So I tried Vim a few times, but never lasted the day. At work my Vim-wielding colleagues split windows with abandon. Every now and then there's a blog post about someone switching from TextMate and loving it. ![]() Then of late I became increasingly curious about Vim. I switched from Windows to OS X four years ago mostly because of TextMate.
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