VIVitaly·Mar 29, 2013
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astrails / dotvim
dotvim
An attempt at The Ultimate Vim Configuration™ with focus on Rails development. DEPRECATED, SEE https://github.com/vitaly/dotvim2
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What it is
An attempt at The Ultimate Vim Configuration™ with focus on Rails development. DEPRECATED, SEE https://github.com/vitaly/dotvim2
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
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I thought of asking the same question, but decided to do some googling. Found this interesting review by Guido: https://profiles.google.com/gvanrossum/posts/CGh9MoWU53V…
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| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcescheck out https://github.com/astrails/dotvim instead. pretty good readme
In Show HN: Vimified | Ultimate VIM configurationHow is this better then https://github.com/astrails/dotvim ? :)
The readme is better and does not pretends to be ultimate, just a pretty good one ;)
In Show HN: Vimified | Ultimate VIM configurationa whole packaged deal at https://github.com/astrails/dotvim
tons of extensions and custom bindings. good README.
In What is in your .vimrcI thought of asking the same question, but decided to do some googling.
Found this interesting review by Guido: https://profiles.google.com/gvanrossum/posts/CGh9MoWU53V
Overall, it seems to be a great editor for doing work in Python. I have been using vim as my main code editor for C++, Python, Ruby, PHP for nearly 10 years and it is hard for me to imagine leaving vim.
But no one says you can't use PyCharm and vim together. What I mean is that, when I am sitting down to work on some code having PyCharm seems great. But when I just need to make some quick edits, then vim can be used. In the end, the results of our work is just text chunks that are in a DVCS.
I think I will give the 30-day free trial a shot to see how it works compared to my vim setup (using https://github.com/astrails/dotvim as a base for my current vim seutp btw). And I
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recommend you to just give it a shot and see how it works for you and your workflow.
If you are developing with RoR, http://github.com/astrails/dotvim#readme is a good resource to start your quest for knowledge.
In Ask HN: What Vim Plugins do you use?a good collection of vim plugins and configs (with an awesome README) can be found here: http://github.com/astrails/dotvim
In Essential VimI used TextMate for a couple of years but lately switched back to vim. This time I invested in a good vim setup with plugins to fill in places where it wasl lacking compared to TextMate. the config can be found at http://github.com/astrails/dotvim
There is a (rather long) README with explanations of what is there and short instructions of basic use.
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