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Vimcasts
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoIf you're using Chrome right-click the video and open Video in New Tab or you'll get badly-resized, and pretty much unreadable text. Looks much better in Firefox at the reduced size, but you'll probably still want to right-click and View Video to see it at its best.
- oscardelben 17y agoIt's ok for me in chrome (mac os x)
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoDoesn't look like there's been any action in the bug tracking this issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19113 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19113 Are you running the very latest nightly code?
- oscardelben 17y agoI'm not using nightly builds.
- nelstrom 17y agoOr you could subscribe to the podcast, and watch it offline: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=350035635 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...
- brown9-2 17y agoThanks, I was just about to ask about the badly-resized video. Also, thanks for revealing this "open Video in new tab" feature I've never seen before. Chrome is very pleasing in this manner.
- oscardelben 17y agoFrom the about page: >Vimcasts is produced by Drew Neil (aka nelstrom), who came to Vim from TextMate. He made the switch when starting work at a company that uses Linux workstations. His choice of text editor was influenced by collegues. Textmate is great, but this is something that concern me as well, as sooner or later I'll have to start over with a new editor. Hopefully I'll be able to learn something through these screencasts.
- bittersweet 17y agoI, and as have a lot of others, went from TextMate to Vim. I was really looking into something fresh, and learning Vim has been a breath of fresh air. I found it comparable to when I switched over from SVN to Git, it really made me revitalized my programming, I was looking forward to work with my new tools! I had that same feeling when picking up Vim, so I can wholeheartedly recommend!
- rmoriz 17y agoawesome. please continue!
- rmoriz 17y agoOne note: please activate page caching. looks like your slicehost is quite busy atm.
- nelstrom 17y agoVimcasts.org runs on Radiant CMS, which has page caching enabled by default. My problem was too many app instances spinning up. I've limited the PassengerMaxPoolSize and PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp both to 2, which seems to have fixed it. I appreciate this burst of traffic to help me get to the bottom of this.
- sohooo 17y agoI wonder why you're running a clean site like vimcasts.org on a full-blown CMS. Imho this scenario longs for simpler solutions. Static site generators - in the Ruby universe: toto, nanoc, webby - come to mind.
- rmoriz 17y agoWell, I guess your passenger/apache is not configured right to deliver the generated static files without using ruby or passenger besides your MaxInstances/PoolSize options. I remember some issues with passengers and page caching (on nginx e.g.) which needed some tweaks.
- rufo 17y agoRadiant uses Rack::Cache behind the scenes, so it still needs to be running. I'm sure there's some reason it doesn't use Rails static caching, but even having used Radiant I'm not sure what it would be...
- unignorant 17y agoExcellent! I tend to switch around between vim, emacs, and textmate -- this may give me the impetus to learn vim a bit more fully.
- hubb 17y agosite looks down :( http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/vimcasts.org http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/vimcasts.org
- nelstrom 17y agoI gave the server a kick, so it should be back up now. Thanks for your patience.
- thibaut_barrere 17y agoHi Drew - I'm trying to find an email to contact you but cannot, I'll try here then: I'd like to add vimcasts to learnivore.com, is it possible ?
- nelstrom 17y agoYou'll get me with drew at the domain name. Sorry that's not more obvious.
- thibaut_barrere 17y agothanks! For the others, it will be added on learnivore end of week or sooner.
- tfh 17y agoThe site is beautifully designed. Minimal, simple and effective. just like vim :)
- erlanger 17y agoI'll pay vim many compliments, "minimal" is not one of them.
- tfh 17y agoWhat i like about vim's UI is that it's very reduced to a minimum. New users have no idea how powerful it is.
- nfnaaron 17y agoCome to the Dark Side. We have buffers.
- sophacles 17y agoWait, which dark side? (or possibly, what is the light side?) Both vim and emacs have buffers, including special ones...
- 10ren 17y agoI use the arg list. I looked into buffers a while back, but they seemed overcomplex for what I need (same with windows). Checking the vim help just now, buffers and arglist seem (mostly) equivalent. I'm curious: do you find there's specific advantages of buffers over the arglist? And, do you use buffers as well as, or instead of, the arglist? The only problem I find is that if I start two vims in different xterms, sometimes I'll want to paste between them - so I need to use the system clipboard, instead of vim.
- nfnaaron 17y agoAh, my mistake. I meant registers, not buffers. :help registers As to your "I'm curious" question, I use both. Mostly arglist, and I resort to buffers when the arglist has gone squirrely (editing an additional file after starting with a number of files, e.g.). For example, edit a small number of files (vi *). :files will show you the list of files. Repeating :n will take you through each file. :e newfile to create a new file :files will show you the list, with newfile at the end. :rew to rewind the list :n will get you to the last file on the original list, but not to newfile. :bn will then get you to newfile.
- hello_moto 17y agonelstrom, may I request for screencasts geared toward beginners? :D
- nelstrom 17y agoOf course - and you're not the only one asking. The latest episode on modal editing ("the newbie killer") is a step back to basics. However, I don't intend to cover the material that you can find in the vimtutor.
- hello_moto 17y agoThanks!
- 25thhour 17y agoGreat pacing and clearly communicated. Has helped me no end to get up to speed with Vim in my new job.
- nfnaaron 17y agoThis is a good example of how to do a simple tutorial. The tutorial video itself is well done. Following the video is a concise recap of what was covered in the video. At the end is a short, relevant list of "learn more" resources. Well done.
- ldh 17y agoAwesome! I've been trying to immerse myself in Vim lately, so I'm excited to check these out.
- graywh 17y agoPersonally, I've found some of the advice dubious or just plain wrong (e.g. trying to map control plus number key). But some of it looks terrific.
- graywh 17y agoIt's not nice to downvote a factual statement (that there is some advice that just doesn't work) without providing a counter-argument. Seriously, vim doesn't handle maps for ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc. or ctrl-shift-[, etc. because terminals don't have a way to represent them to running programs. (Technically, xterm has a mode, but no programs understand it.) And gui vim doesn't handle them (though, it could) because that would be too different from what terminal vim can do.
- cosmok 17y agoI would also recommend the Vim Tutorial Videos here: http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/ http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/
- brianjherman 17y agoIf you append all the vimrc together you get this: http://brianh.nfshost.com/vimrc.html http://brianh.nfshost.com/vimrc.html
- chewbranca 17y agoGlad to see a vimcasts site, more perspectives on vim are always welcome. I saw in the comments that you're using randiant cms, one thing you might want to check out is that the source code for railscasts.com is open source and is a pretty solid video cast site.