If you can help, I’d love to hear from you. It’s disappointing that we didn’t manage to record the talks this time around, but I hope to figure something out in time for the next meetup. We haven’t picked a theme yet, but if you’d like to be involved in the discussion, then please join the Vim London google group. Vim London will meet again in February, on the last Tuesday of the month. Inspired by the meetup, Rob Miller published a new custom motion of his own: movar, which makes it easy to operate on variables in (so far) PHP, Javascript, and Ruby. As case studies he looked at the camelcasemotion and seek plugins, discussing how they were implemented. He’s published his slides on speakerdeck:Īlex introduced the concept of operator-pending mode, and showed how :omap can be used to create motions that work in that mode.
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Custom motions in Vim, by Alex YoungĪlex closed the evening with a look at how to create custom motions using Vimscript. He also explained the way that surround fits in with Vim’s existing grammar rules. Kris gave a live demonstration of some of the scenarios where the plugin can make life easier. Kris presented a lightning talk on surround, an essential plugin from Tim Pope. Congratulations to Jack on becoming a published author! (I’ll show you the secret handshake next time we meet) 4. He also mentioned that his Beginning jQuery book was due to be released the next day. He gave a live demonstration (no slides) of how the plugin allows you to rapidly move around a file. Jack presented a lightning talk on the easymotion plugin by Kim Silkebaekken. Essential further reading: Operator, the true power of Vim, by Kana Natsuno. I also cover this material in tip 23 of Practical Vim. This will be a familiar refrain if you’ve ever attended one of my Vim Masterclasses. When performing a repetitive set of changes (where the dot command is your friend), you should prefer using Normal operations over Visual operations.
The dot command repeats your last change, which allows for a very efficient workflow when going through a set of similar changes. In a nutshell: visual mode doesn’t work well with the dot command.
I’ve published the slides for my presentation on speakerdeck. I have spent hundreds of dollars at a 'certified installer' and countless hours. When and why you should stay out of visual mode, by Drew Neil Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2016. Tom has written up an Intro to Vim grammar blog post, which nicely summarizes the material from his talk. He illustrated Vim’s Normal mode operations with a simple set of rules:Ĭheck out his grammar slide and be sure to click the ‘Show optional’ link. Tom Camman kicked off the evening with an introduction to Vim’s Grammar.
We had five short talks, which I’ll summarize briefly here: 1. The talks weren’t recorded, so I’m posting a retrospective here. We had 5 short talks on the theme of Speak Vim - operators and motions. On Tuesday, 29th January, we held the 3rd meeting of Vim London.
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