Great video. It's nice to see someone else who uses vim and doesn't write code. Your setup is similar to mine but I would recommend a couple of utilities, fzf and silver searcher, and the fzf plugin for vim called fzf-vim. Between those you can find any thing you are looking for while in Vim from files, text within files, and many other vim related items.
"do you know how much text you'd need for a 1 megabyte file?" I thought I once computed that to about 440 paperback pages. It'd be cool to know how close that is.
You can use `set signcolumn=yes` to make sure the sign column is always displayed for git gutter. Then, `set updatetime=100` changes vim's UI update time from 4000ms (that's 4 seconds!) to 100ms, which means your git gutter will update almost immediately.
Still a great video after all this time. I too like using the built in file-browser in Vim (netrw) and think that 30 colums is a good with to Lexplore-split in. I recently found that netrw has a setting for setting the size of the window opened when opened in a split. let g:netrw_winsize = 30 This would have your Lex-command open in a split that is 30% of your screen size.
1:45 in are seriosity (yesyes, I know) if you use vim, it probably only makes sense if you program, and program fast at that. The gains for any other application, any application which doesn't require you to switch between >5 files within 5 minutes, which doesn't require you to jump between lines in less than a minute, probably will not make a big difference. But fuck it, vim is great. long live ncurses
Hi Makc, I have just started with Vim unfortunately I type very slow and am trying to learn a bit of program language. Your video is excellent you have come a long way since you say you started with version8 I am still trying to learn how to install some plugins but I'll get there trouble is I am almost 70haha but enjoy trying to learn, only negative is font size very difficult to see, once again thanks for video from u.k.
I liked the Goyo plugin - thank you!!! The only thing I noticed when I installed it was that it turns off relative numbers - don't you use them when you write?
@@makc Lucky you! How do you yank some lines of text in normal mode then? Ctrl-V? I find it hard to do something like y6j or y17j - because my touch typing is a bit behind with numbers and characters like $,%,^...
Great video! Do you happen to know of any a plug-in similar to Git Gutter that can track changes made to a markup document (for example, one made using LaTeX) without having to use Git?
@@makc I have used the default vim explorer and I can't recommend it. At least on my experience it wouldn't leave me escape Vim because it would leave certain buffers open and do other small things which aren't a big deal but are annoying on their own. It may be different now since I haven't tried the default file explorer for a while.
