![]() ![]() Instead, use MacVim and various plugins so you can start out closer to where you are now. 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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