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Getting More From Vim
- johncoltrane 12y agoI find it funny how you suggest your readers to install so many plugins (some of them incredibly pointless), and the plugin manager of the day, for "getting more from vim" after such a superficial series of posts in a series called "learning Vim".
- ben336 12y agoTo be clear, I explicitly say that you shouldn't install each of those plugins. They're meant as an idea of whats out there. I'm sorry you've found the series superficial. Any thoughts on what would make it more useful?
- johncoltrane 12y agoYour articles are entitled "Learning Vim" so one could expect a little bit more depth and actual "teaching". And not promoting crap like Janus… installing that shit is the opposite of learning. It's like paying someone to do your homework for you. http://benmccormick.org/2014/07/07/learning-vim-in-2014-working-with-files/ http://benmccormick.org/2014/07/07/learning-vim-in-2014-work... was ridiculous. In "Buffer Management", you don't talk about :find or command-line completion or the wildmenu or the possibility to use mappings or the fact that one can use buffer names to navigate or tag-based navigation. And under "Plugins", the following sentence (and the mandatory list of plugins) is not really helping you to get your point across: The good news is that Vim has solutions. They're just not baked into the Vim core. Seriously, don't do that under a "learning vim" umbrella. That series should be called "Get Vim to look like all those screenshots without worrying about learning to use it".
- ben336 12y agoSorry you didn't find it helpful. I'll keep that stuff in mind going forward.
- johncoltrane 12y agoI didn't really hope your articles to be helpful for me, to be honest, but people wanting to learn Vim will certainly find them lacking.
- ben336 12y agoWell I'm glad I met expectations at least then :)