The why of why people use vim has been covered fairly extensively, so I thought I would spend a little time explaining why I teach vim to my high school students, even in 2020. It all began when I … (more…)

Problem: For some people the hint about quitting is not sufficient. Solution: Put <Enter> separately. Also use ":qa!" to get out even when there are changes. (more…)

Whenever someone sees my editor, this is always the first thing they ask about. (more…)

Some people like Vim as a text editor, and other people like Emacs. Having such different opinions are the way of the UNIX world. I'm an Emacs user through and through. Sure, I spent a few obligatory years in my early days of UNIX using Vim, but once I le... (more…)

I love vim and often use it to write Python code. Here are some useful plugins and tools for building a delightful vim python environment, escpecially for Vim8: (more…)