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Textmate To Vim: 100 Textmate keyboard shortcuts translated to VIM

47 points by jackkinsella 15y ago

kia 15y ago
Sorry, off topic. But the red design of the tables is awful.
- jackkinsella 15y ago
  I'm happy to modify it if you can suggest improvements. I don't have the greatest eye for design.
  - kia 15y ago
    I am not a design expert either. But red tables on dark background feel uncomfortable for eyes when you are in a dark room. I'd suggest to make them darker (which will also add some contrast to the white text) and to use a more neutral color.
    - jackkinsella 15y ago
      You're right; the red was too loud. I changed the background to a light purple and switched to plain black text. Do you find it easier to read?
      - kia 15y ago
        Yes. I think this is better. PS Unfortunately, now the contrast between table cells is almost lost. Don't know if it was intended.
xal 15y ago
If you are going textmate to Vim you should really just go straight to Vico. It's essentially the perfect editor ( for me ): Textmate look/feel/bundles but vim keybinds down to the most esoteric corners. http://www.vicoapp.com/ http://www.vicoapp.com/
aeden 15y ago
Is there somewhere to suggest comments? The information is quite useful but I think there may be some more idiomatic shortcuts in certain cases. For example, isn't :w FILENAME the equivalent of "Save As"? And perhaps it would be good to show commands that are OS-agnostic like :tabnew for a new tab? Regardless, I think this is a useful resource and I'd love to have a cheat sheet with it. Thanks!
- jackkinsella 15y ago
  If you suggest improvements here I will make the modifications. I just changed :saveas filename to :w filename OS-agnostic methods are outside the scope of the guide, which is only intended for those coming from Textmate, implying that they are on a Mac. If I were to accommodate everyone it would get too messy to fulfill its primary purpose. The single responsibility principle applies equally to tutorials.
  - CGamesPlay 15y ago
    :w FILENAME will save a file without changing the filename of the current buffer, while :sav FILENAME will update the filename (so that future :w will go to the new file, rather than the old one). I think :sav is the right one for that shortcut.
    - aeden 15y ago
      Interesting! Thanks for the clarification and I definitely agree that :sav FILENAME is a more accurate Save File As... than :w FILENAME.
dmix 15y ago
I found NERTree really akward and was one of the reasons why I originally had trouble switching to VIM from textmate. Its best to use something like PeepOpen, command-t, fuzzyfinder to open files. If you want tree structure I just use terminal and aliased: alias l='ls -AlGFh' Or use the vim directory navigation. VIM also looks much nicer with just a single file open. The left panel for NERDTree looks hacky.
- gitah 15y ago
  I use NERDTree and quite like it, but I never keep it open. I have :NERDTreeToggle mapped to <Leader>f, so if I need to open a file I can quickly press `,f`, find the file and then press `,f` to close NERDTree. One thing I find annoying about this is that in MacVim, NERDTree creates a scrollbar in the left hand side of the window that I can never seem to get rid of. Once the files are open, I tend to use buffers, splits and tabs to navigate between them. NERDTree is just used to load a file into a Vim buffer. Also note that the NERDTree explorer replaces the default vim file explorer. I heard good things about Command-T though, maybe I'll try that and see if it works better with my workflow than NERDTree.
  - paydro 15y ago
    You can remove the left hand scrollbar by setting this command: " This removes the left hand scrollbar from the current guioptions. :set guioptions-=L Check out :help guioptions for more. I've set up my vim so I don't have any scrollbars.
Vitaly 15y ago
a couple of mistakes and comments: * "File>new" can be done by ':enew' * top of the file is 'gg' and not just 'g' * bottom of the file is 'G' and not 'GG' ;) * in addition to ':20<CR>' you can use just '20G' to go to line 20 * to sort all of the file use ':%!sort<CR>', no need to use '0,$'
- jackkinsella 15y ago
  Thanks for the feedback; I've just made the improvements. The gg G mixup was a nasty little typo.

47 points by jackkinsella 15y ago

kia 15y ago

Sorry, off topic. But the red design of the tables is awful.

jackkinsella 15y ago
I'm happy to modify it if you can suggest improvements. I don't have the greatest eye for design.
- kia 15y ago
  I am not a design expert either. But red tables on dark background feel uncomfortable for eyes when you are in a dark room. I'd suggest to make them darker (which will also add some contrast to the white text) and to use a more neutral color.
  - jackkinsella 15y ago
    You're right; the red was too loud. I changed the background to a light purple and switched to plain black text. Do you find it easier to read?
    - kia 15y ago
      Yes. I think this is better. PS Unfortunately, now the contrast between table cells is almost lost. Don't know if it was intended.

xal 15y ago

If you are going textmate to Vim you should really just go straight to Vico. It's essentially the perfect editor ( for me ): Textmate look/feel/bundles but vim keybinds down to the most esoteric corners. http://www.vicoapp.com/ http://www.vicoapp.com/

aeden 15y ago

Is there somewhere to suggest comments? The information is quite useful but I think there may be some more idiomatic shortcuts in certain cases. For example, isn't :w FILENAME the equivalent of "Save As"? And perhaps it would be good to show commands that are OS-agnostic like :tabnew for a new tab? Regardless, I think this is a useful resource and I'd love to have a cheat sheet with it. Thanks!

jackkinsella 15y ago
If you suggest improvements here I will make the modifications. I just changed :saveas filename to :w filename OS-agnostic methods are outside the scope of the guide, which is only intended for those coming from Textmate, implying that they are on a Mac. If I were to accommodate everyone it would get too messy to fulfill its primary purpose. The single responsibility principle applies equally to tutorials.
- CGamesPlay 15y ago
  :w FILENAME will save a file without changing the filename of the current buffer, while :sav FILENAME will update the filename (so that future :w will go to the new file, rather than the old one). I think :sav is the right one for that shortcut.
  - aeden 15y ago
    Interesting! Thanks for the clarification and I definitely agree that :sav FILENAME is a more accurate Save File As... than :w FILENAME.

dmix 15y ago

I found NERTree really akward and was one of the reasons why I originally had trouble switching to VIM from textmate. Its best to use something like PeepOpen, command-t, fuzzyfinder to open files. If you want tree structure I just use terminal and aliased: alias l='ls -AlGFh' Or use the vim directory navigation. VIM also looks much nicer with just a single file open. The left panel for NERDTree looks hacky.

gitah 15y ago
I use NERDTree and quite like it, but I never keep it open. I have :NERDTreeToggle mapped to <Leader>f, so if I need to open a file I can quickly press `,f`, find the file and then press `,f` to close NERDTree. One thing I find annoying about this is that in MacVim, NERDTree creates a scrollbar in the left hand side of the window that I can never seem to get rid of. Once the files are open, I tend to use buffers, splits and tabs to navigate between them. NERDTree is just used to load a file into a Vim buffer. Also note that the NERDTree explorer replaces the default vim file explorer. I heard good things about Command-T though, maybe I'll try that and see if it works better with my workflow than NERDTree.
- paydro 15y ago
  You can remove the left hand scrollbar by setting this command: " This removes the left hand scrollbar from the current guioptions. :set guioptions-=L Check out :help guioptions for more. I've set up my vim so I don't have any scrollbars.

Vitaly 15y ago

a couple of mistakes and comments: * "File>new" can be done by ':enew' * top of the file is 'gg' and not just 'g' * bottom of the file is 'G' and not 'GG' ;) * in addition to ':20<CR>' you can use just '20G' to go to line 20 * to sort all of the file use ':%!sort<CR>', no need to use '0,$'

jackkinsella 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback; I've just made the improvements. The gg G mixup was a nasty little typo.