THE VIDEO SHELF · vim text editing
7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
Vim author Bram Moolenaar's 2007 Google Tech Talk on habits for efficient text editing: find inefficiencies in your own editing, then learn the Vim commands that fix them.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as practical advice straight from Vim's author, and shared in memory of Bram after his death.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Topic
- vim text editing
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I'm not sure this is an answer for you, as you ask for "tools like LXC for virtualizing a production environment", but have you looked at Vagrant? I don't use OS X myself, but AFAIK it should work fine on OS X, see eg: "Django …
e12e on Hacker News · 2012-09
In Ask HN: Python / Django Workflow, and choosing an OSThis video of a talk that Bram Moolenaar (the author of vim) gave at Google in 2007 has some pretty good advice. [VIDEO] Mainly the idea is to not try and learn everything about vim, but instead pay attention to how you use it, and …
anaphor on Hacker News · 2019-07
In History and Effective Use of Vim
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