Damian Conway, "More Instantly Better Vim" - OSCON 2013

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Once again Damian Conway returns from the untamed wilderness of deepest Vim, bringing with him yet another collection of tips, tools, and tricks to make your text editing still more unspeakably powerful.
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[@TwoMinutePapers]

I wonder why the audience was not sold for the humor in the talk. Love it! :)

[@timweissenfels5353]

Why are you here 😂😂😂

[@insiderich7372]

Surprisingly dumb audience who cannot recognize a genuine joke without fake laughter track in the background...

[@jasafraga]

What’s up two minute! Yah!

[@RuslanKovtun]

They are just breathless.

[@bumpwavy]

ACTUALLY im pretty sure they where, its just that the microphone was set up weirdly!

[@ArielVolovik]

This guy's a fucking madman. Great talk!

[@myycomputer]

I am watching this ages late, yet it still as helpful as the date it came out.

[@medkha8210]

This is so damn good and with humor! bookmarked.

[@alexlisowski849]

Awesome editor, perfect speaker. I'm impressed, thank you. And yea. Script the world!

[@dasten123]

The part starting at 35:00 was amazing! Dude I HAVE to learn how to use that damn program :D

[@onetimepad7]

guess I'm getting that tarball... only drawback is, when you get to a computer where it's not installed, and you already are used to it, you will feel unhappy. But the pro's are so intriguing... that "block move" is so cool!

[@AlqGo]

Block move is so useful that it's strange it does not come out of the box with vim

[@RompVT]

am I the only one here who learned more vim from the comments than I did from this lovely entertaining video?

[@regedit33]

All that swapfiles craziness, I'm happy to not have to deal with that anymore after trying Spacemacs (maybe Emacs by default handles this well also)

[@paulham2353]

Nothing seems really usefull to me except the last 2 minutes part. Wanna get hyped on vim? listen to Derek Wyatt. Also this guy should know about vim's --silent-remote option, why would you mess with swap files like that.

[@marvin674]

The link at 2:25 is not working. Can anyone reshare this?

[@nathanfarrar]

Rad stuff.

[@alexandre3989]

How about "set noswap"?

[@jackyalcine]

Perfect VIm!

[@JohnBastardSnow]

Even a better way for semicolons is to use Programmer's Dvorak, which solves inefficiencies like that. But there's even a more efficient way to code than with Programmer's Dvorak and that's using stenography and plover (which can give you speeds more than 280 wpm with 1/3 of keystrokes and less RSI).

[@Samonitari]

Well, looked at stenography, but that's mainly for speech, ain't it? I do not think that the most limiting factor in coding is typing the variables, which, at times, not the best mappeble to english words, or quite often abbrevations which you cannot abbrevate further meaningfully. I should get a better brain to think better code in the first place...

[@TheRealisticNihilist]

Damn you for remapping semi colon.

[@ShamelessHorse]

Honestly, the last one was the only mildly impressive thing. Vim v Emacs trick off! I raise you Emacs Rocks! Live at WebRebels

[@lemniscif]

You'd have to hear him in person; it's less grating than the tinny-audio and just comes across as exuberant. Also, this material is less potent than the first lecture I had with him, on closure engineering principles

[@garciajero]

Yea but how about exiting vim ?

[@sfvermeulen]

I would disagree, semi-colon is incredibly useful

[@markskilbeck]

That emacs joke did NOT land. Viva la emacs.

[@PacAnimal]

This audience has no taste. This presenter does.

[@ruthlessadmin]

This video is just making me wonder how much time Vim users have wasted trying to make it do what they want, when in 2015 we should just admit that graphical editors are better.... I use Geany and I spend exactly ZERO% of my time fucking with the editor and exactly 100% of my time being a productive programmer. In Geany (and loads of other editors I've tried), I may take 5 minutes after the initial install, to brush over the options and set everything the way I like it, and then I'm done, off to writing code.

[@peterkerj7357]

What do you get from Geany that you don't get from gVim? What do things like sorting a column even have to do with text vs graphical?

[@mesarvagya777]

Try that in your server console and you will know

[@Ivy_Inquisitor]

When your code base reside in a remote repo to which you will have to ssh to and the remote server admin decided that the only editor you will ever need is vim, then this video is a lifesaver!

[@nescius2]

you can connect to the remote repository via sftp (but perhaps you should be using git in the first place) - there is no good reason to use this coprolite so long after discovery of modern keyboard.

[@drink__more__water]

I wanna see this guys config files... Like all his commands are aliased to do something else xD I love it.

[@fraproxy]

+Nick Chirico That's were the whole trick hides - go buy a book ;)

[@vinref0]

I now spend more time configuring my vimrc than actually using it for real work...

[@sandikodev]

wtff lol :v

[@dagadbm]

Me 2 xD

[@Tux0xFF]

true story

[@Tux0xFF]

seriously this also happened to me, i could have learned a new programming language already but configuring vimrc is a never ending task, i am always finding new stuff and new ways to improve it.

[@vim1729]

@@SimonWoodburyForget Emacs is a joke

[@sdeleon28]

Hello Vim newcomer. Be warned this presentation is just a major display of sheer procrastination. Before writing plugins like a maniac, learn the basics. Read Practical Vim and watch Vimcasts. Remapping semicolon is blasphemy. So is making comma your leader key.

[@Tux0xFF]

i guilty of this

[@chamalinni]

@@Tux0xFF Making comma your leader key is the absolutely sensible thing to do. Fight me!

[@rianlindenberger623]

why is making comma my leader key so bad? For me with a german keyboard, that's way more sensible than using +Key from the top row

[@totheknee]

What if the default leader key was comma and *\* was "next find?" Then would it be blasphemy to remap the leader key to *\* ?

[@therealmicksa]

Vim is without a doubt my favorite operating system.

[@TimTeatro]

+Michael Slade Yeah, and unlike Emacs OS, Vim OS has a great text editor built in!

[@MrMangkokoo]

@@TimTeatro have you guys checked spacemacs?

[@maxfriis]

Wonder why they have all these videos on how to improve vim. Hmm - maybe it's not very good?

[@ulissemini5492]

@@maxfriis By that reasoning notepad is the best text editor, nobody is customizing it.

[@maxfriis]

@@ulissemini5492 Read again - that is not my reasoning. I was talking about _videos_ on improvement, and that logic makes perfect sense. True that notepad have no videos and that's because it does it's job just fine. That is not the job editing source code, but for many jobs notepad is ok.

[@xavierartot]

I use a lot the semicolon, who's does ? I use f + t, and when I want find the another "t" I hit ";"

[@bayantsinghkang67]

And we do g + ; to jump in the change list

[@totheknee]

For real, that seems like one of the most basic commands that is essential. Although I do use it much less often than running a command.

[@NikolajLepka]

thanks for all the emacs plugin ideas

[@rhoeat]

+Nikolaj Lepka did you make any pls share!

[@NikolajLepka]

rho eat not yet

[@rhoeat]

+Nikolaj Lepka which one are you thinking to make first?

[@warefairsoda]

I interpreted that as sarcasm.

[@PabloAndresDealbera]

@@warefairsoda Me as well. I don't the need to make a plugin when you can just import in into your .vimrc.

[@fernandowitt4894]

I do use ';' to go to the next occurrence of the char in the line!

[@slinkeepy]

I find it hard to take anyone seriously who uses the default HJKL single-char navigation keys... maybe they don't want to change the default keys for legacy reasons, but it should be discouraged as much as possible... im still a vim noob but im being very careful to choose logical keys for everything...

[@Asrashas]

actually it's not "for legacy reasons" that they have been changed, but because they are in the home row. You don't need to move your fingers out of typing position to use them which makes it faster. If that potential speedup is worth it to you is another thing.

[@slinkeepy]

Yep sorry, I meant it's for legacy reasons they have not NOT been changed, but don't think I said it too clearly... are you for keeping hjkl as the directional keys for the right hand or for jkl; ?

[@Asrashas]

I don't really care either way. Changing the keys is just editing 4 lines in .vimrc away. But i might change the scheme to jklö (different keyboard layout than you have) for all programs that uses vim-esque controls so it's inline with i3wm. But for now I'm quite fine with using hjkl on most programs. If they change the defaults at some point I'd get comfy with that too.

[@michaelbruceallen3700]

Yup. That along with with , to go back.

[@DmitryKaminski]

Semicolon repeats a search command ( f F t T ) so it's not completely useless to be remapped to colon..

[@WillowEpp]

Default colours? Looks to me like he needs to set bg=dark. There's some good stuff in here, though. Highlighting the 81st column with a BufWinEnter went into my vimrc before I even finished the video.

[@AndersSildnes]

Just when you think you know something about vim, presentations like these come up. Great talk!

[@skeliskull]

VIM is the perfect editor if you want to spend a shit ton of time configuring VIM rather than getting anything done

[@asdfkjhlk34]

How tf u live without ;

[@Zmej420BlazeIt]

it took me until 20:40 to realize he was saying tarball (not table) lol

[@ralphmuellerde]

haben't used vi in decades, he got me suckered into that again :-)

[@SFDestiny]

"GNU's copy-sinister agenda" The man speaks Latin!

[@Quatsch83]

Note to myself for the 2 things I might actually use: 3:50: matchadd for cursorline only where over limit 7:30: add trail:. to listchars

[@NKernytskyy]

I used to be stumbled by what Vim can do, but this video obliterated everything I've seen about Vim before. Period. BRAVO!

[@casperdewith]

9:45 Or you just map space to the colon key. Space is synonymous to the l key anyway. I like navigating between commas (arguments) using the colon and semicolon keys, so I wouldn’t want to hold Shift for only one of them.

[@CaptainKraft]

I thought I was getting pretty good at Vim. Holy crap there is so much more to learn.

[@BerendvanBerkum0]

I'm making my next presentation in vimpoint. :) Perfect example on what to do with syntax highlighting and what not. That vimscript buffer is horrible. It's why I prefer a much toned-down colorscheme, such as desert. You need something balanced and stylized to get in so much visual metadata. Cant do that with pre-VGA era colors.

[@roogoo8840]

great talk, i think i'm a bit of a maniac like damian, need to automate all the crap i dislike (which probably takes more time)

[@raf.nogueira]

Damm love this Emacs and VIM nerds specially when their have a good sense os humor .... Sadly where I live have no tech companies or people like this

[@maybepumpkins]

How is he so quickly selecting those contiguous blocks in visual block mode? (Please don't answer gv)

[@simonced]

maybe like f8j Which makes your selection jump right to the next Tab (I don't think he used tabs though, it's an example I give anyway) then 8 lines below. Of course, in case of characters only, / might help in that case maybe. It could also be a mapping for demo sake...

[@JavierPortillo1]

The files seem to no longer be available. Guess I'll try to recreate from the presentation.

[@PabloAndresDealbera]

26:10 This is the closest we've been to hack into the Matrix. haha

[@gregdee9085]

Dude directly contradicts himself in the syntax highlighting rant.. Too funny.

[@lorenzoiannuzzi3937]

what does he use for the presentation?

[@justin883]

maybe github.com/trapd00r/vimpoint

[@dereknugent5897]

Many thanks for this... I'm still struggling to get Emmet to work nevermind this Vim goodness! Again many many thanks Damian Conway and O'Reilly for putting this out there!

[@grahamjoss4643]

Can I still get the tar ball somewhere? The link at the beginning is broken

[@DamionNabarrete]

Holy shit #4 & last 5 min

[@blenderpanzi]

Erm, to insert an acute one just has to type ´ and the letter, if you configure the keyboard correctly (it's per default like that in Linux (since >10 years?)). I didn't configure mine like that (option: no dead keys), because i don't need that but I use ` in shell scripts.

[@964tractorboy]

Inspires me to get into the guts of vi. A real eye-opener. Thanks Damian!

[@AndyThomasStaff]

As an experienced vimmer, the only interesting / useful thing from this talk is github.com/gavinbeatty/dragvisuals.vim - and I haven't actually used it yet after having it installed for a month

[@udirt]

Awesome - all the little UX fuckups you worked around are exactly why I always stuck with nvi: no distractions, no ambiguity, just editing. I wish the vim defaults were made with as much care as you put in.

[@BeatSyncBytes]

His swap issue was quite funny 😂 he basically reinvented the whee

[@wliaputs]

That’s why nowadays I try not to remap any key bindings, except for toggling extensions like NerdTree.

[@calebdeming5515]

This guy talks like Steve Jobs.

[@lorddorogoth]

Funny that someone at oscon would use a mac.

[@asdqwe4427]

some very cool things that i probably will never use, because im lazy in a stupid way, not in a smart way :P

[@zee63976]

Great video I enjoyed these tricks very much! The drag plugin though, doesn't seem to work well if the block is selected using $ anchor. It wouldn't move right properly. Great stuff nonetheless!

[@ex0stasis72]

That autoswap_mac plugin looks great. I wish I could find one for Linux on the gnome-terminal.

[@magnoid]

The colon/semi-colon swap seems like it would be useful and super easy to implement

[@onetimepad7]

already had to press the "like" button after the first 2 minutes! X-D LOL

[@cvoges12]

9:30 r/nextFuckingLevel

[@CanMetan]

Great speech. Gold mine right there.

[@antonioi.barraza4861]

Where's the tarball?!

[@QuestorTheElf]

Good for mac vim version... Some issues on linux! =|

[@patrickprucha5522]

WOW!!!!!

[@JanUC3mQtGq3NMcyMVdhm6md]

I'll give it a try, tho after using Vim for so long, this will be the hardest keybinding swap for me so far.

[@patrickprucha5522]

Excellent Conference. Thank you

[@kamanashisroy]

I use Markdown for bullet list.

[@lonewanderer1776]

so today hhhhhhhhhu

[@PIC18F]

I use 'j' to move down.

[@ex0stasis72]

...which is the default.

[@dariocruz7891]

This is insane!

[@minsomai5235]

that april fool Color Column got me.

[@macarthy]

Great content. I find the presentation a little shout-y though.

[@steartfires3039]

Clever dude, great presentation.

[@macarthy]

That could be it! . Anyway good content.

[@parnmatt]

That last plugin …nice.

[@Souls4Roca]

that last plugin..............

[@DanielPianoful]

Great plugins, great presentation!

[@dengan699]

Wow

[@AyushMandowara_xx7]

is there a gvim plugin for 15:23 ?

[@AyushMandowara_xx7]

I use windows for my job so...

[@VarunJalandery]

Vimaniac !!!!!!

[@magniffsdigitaldevices2153]

nnoremap ; : is helpful really)

[@sdeleon28]

DON'T! The semicolon is a vital key. This guy is super trigger happy on the plugin writing and doesn't seem to be good at what comes out of the box with Vim.

[@DaveJacoby]

Love this talk.

[@confuseh]

i dont know why im here, i watched the whole video and i don't use vim, i have too bad of a memory to remember things and so I use less efficient ways.

[@jonathanstiansen8905]

+Confuseh You remember words, you remember numbers, you remember lots of things that require memory. This is *no* different. It's about practice, you need to set a schedule of doing things a bit a day and it will stick. Period. If you can write words, and don't have any sort of major (MAJOR) cognitive impairment you're fine. If you're doing development you're definitely fine, don't use 'bad memory' as an excuse. Practice :D You can do it! Don't forget to take responsibility for your actions, you can do it if you actually want to.

[@confuseh]

Jonathan Stiansen dude i literally dont remember what I did two hours ago

[@jonathanstiansen8905]

Dude, and you didn't practice remembering it either. So moot point.

[@doodoostickstain]

you don't understand. all he does is smoke weed.

[@confuseh]

i dont smoke weed

[@1schwererziehbar1]

Good sermon, but I'm not converting.

[@mukeshs2198]

What's this ibv at 15:29?

[@CooperSloan]

+Mukesh S instantly better vim

[@dennisdashkevich]

It's just an alias to `cd path` command.

[@ruhnet]

Why do so many otherwise intelligent people insist on cursing? (Particularly during a public talk like this.) It never, ever adds anything productive. You'd think a logical person would have better control of their vocabulary. Good information in this video though.

[@NickEnchev]

or, you can use emacs+evil

[@ex0stasis72]

I find it interesting that it's way more common for Vim users to be hostile at the idea of using Emacs, but Emacs users are more accepting of the idea that Emacs isn't for everyone, but they love it anyway.

[@Budaeku]

@@ex0stasis72 I think Emacs is objectively more complex and configurable than Vim, so it makes sense.

[@clearz3600]

1983 called ?