Learning Vim: The Path to Mastery (Vim Conf 2020) (Matt Boehm)

[@theena]

The asciinema tip is worth the price of admission alone. Thank you, Matt.

[@sspaeti]

Thanks, man!! Came here to thank you for the automatic test and debugging python by hitting "enter" at 17:35. Just mindblowing. Also, the "vii" for the indent plugin I desperately was looking for works excellently. Will keep your dotfiles in mind for future python stuff when I get more into it.

[@mattboehm4334]

Glad it helped!

[@TimJackleus]

Blown away by switch.vim, such an obvious and nice feature :) Thanks for a great talk!

[@TheRealBigEE]

Norm is absolutely awesome imagine there are commenting plugins that do this but it appears you don’t even need them. Also, quick fix lists as a buffer is absolutely fantastic I have to deep dive into that soon. I’ve done massive project reorganization where I have to change imports for module names and that would save me no doubt a day of work in a few keystrokes. Great video!

[@monugupta32]

Loved the idea of asciinema to observe these mistakes, I find it really useful to just note down somewhere as soon as I encounter a problem, to deal with in the weekend vim later. Great talk thanks for this!

[@CristianHeredia0]

they keybinding for dropping into ipython is worth it's weight in gold

[@incanus33]

great talk, thanks man. also thanks for showing me the targets.vim and neoterm plugins, I instantly fell in love with those and can't imagine how I survived until today without those.

[@BrianMG_x86-64]

Awesome video, Matt! Really enjoyed it; your passion for Vim is wonderful 🤩

[@DavidReidChannel]

Great video. Thanks for sharing

[@UmrenTV]

Hey mate, wonderin' how do you make your Vim highlight the word under your cursor? I remember I've seen that feature in a plugin or something back in days, but can't remember. I know it had the ability to also highlight paragraphs, and stuff. Cheers

[@mattboehm4334]

I use a plugin called vim-brightest to do this; there may be others out there with similar functionality, but I've been happy with brightest so far. Great for catching spelling mistakes or tracking where a variable is being used =) github.com/osyo-manga/vim-brightest

[@UmrenTV]

@@mattboehm4334 Cheers for letting me know! I've done it differently with augroup and some other plugin, where I had to setup update time, which added bunch of delays when dealing with bigger files, hopefully this can help me achieve that more conveniently. Thanks mate!

[@darkenblade986]

bruh bruh cin" changed my life i never knew thx man

[@ivans3806]

The kynesis keyboard is dope

[@jemag]

Great talk, thank you for the recording

[@haterdesaint]

Great video! Thanks

[@AyushMandowara_xx7]

19:23: pretty good stuff in this section. (immediately added targets.vim) Also, can you tell me what's your python setup like within vim? (plugins/mappings/abbreviations)

[@mattboehm4334]

Thanks! I don't have too much python-specific stuff besides the mapping I mentioned. You can see the snippets I use at github.com/mattboehm/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/ultisnippets/python.snippets . Besides that, I use a linter (ale w/ pylint, I believe), but nothing else too python-specific. I hear the intellisense-style completers are getting better, but I typically find them distracting and would rather force myself to remember function names and use the occasional to save a few keystrokes.

[@yathi]

Love the talk! Thanks for sharing. I am at the `ci"` stage. And now I am going to learn `cin"` :)

[@blank001]

19:52 vii how did I dont know about this for this long I am using vim as my primary editor from like ~3 years and to select the lines in same indent I was using vi{, vib(in language which use brackets) , will definitely try to use it when I am working in python. Thanks for the awesome video and great tips

[@eklavyasingh7842]

What kind of keyboard is he using ?

[@mattboehm4334]

Hey, sorry for not seeing this comment earlier. I'm using a Kinesis Advantage here. While they're pricey, the ergonomics and thumb keys are great. I'd recommend checking them out, especially to anyone who might have concerns about RSI.

[@andrescondezomonge5198]

Good stuff!, Thanks!

[@jxn22]

Map the drummed to Lil' Jon, "Hanh!"

[@jxn22]

Peace!