In a previous article I discussed how you can enable 256 colours for vim and how that can improve long coding sessions. But that left me with a problem when ssh'ing to machines where xterm-256color isn't supported. more »

I recently switched to vim7 and discovered this lovely thing called Omnicompletion. Combined with stuff like vimtags it can deliver an experience very similar to big IDEs, with a nice menu popping up and displaying a list of available functions for that object.
The other big improvement is 256 colors support and a new theme taking advantage of it. It sounds like eye-candy but it's a pure functional enhancement, making me able to read code a lot faster than I used to be when lots of stuff looked like the same. And smoother colors are also nicer to the eyes for long coding sessions. Tabs are much nicer than buffers and the minibuffer plugin, and an enhanced status line can save you quite a few keystrokes and provide some very useful information more »

Last night I came up with some stuff to use vim for blogging. It involves some bash scripts and aliases, and you end up with a blog command you can invoke to create a new post. Once there I thought it'd been cool if doing blog<TAB> listed all my current posts and offered tab completation for partially typed names. Bash programmable completation is what I wanted, but it turned out to be less straightforward and well documented than I expected. more »

In the face of blogging clients, xml-rpc servers, blogging APIs and tons of other kludge, here is how I use vim and svn to post on my pyblosxom based blog. more »