Vim Tutorial Screencasts

[Derek Wyatt]

Hi folks,

I just popped my head in to let you know that I've started putting up
some Vim Tutorial Screencasts at http://vimeo.com/user1690209/videos.
I'll also be trying out some little one-liners on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/derekwyatt.

This has been a bit of an experiment over the last few months and I've
found that I enjoy doing them, so it works for me. If other people
can get something out of it, then all the better!

Cheers,
Derek

[Bastiaan Wakkie]

Great stuff Derek. One thing I do find difficult is catching what commands you used. How about adding a transparent history on the right side of everything you type.

Cheers,

Bastiaan

[Derek Wyatt]

Great stuff Derek. One thing I do find difficult is catching what commands you used. How about adding a transparent history on the right side of everything you type.

Thanks Bastiaan.  Someone suggested the same thing as a comment on one of the videos so I used KeyCastr on the latest one.  Does that one help you out?  Someone commented on it and noted that I used 'rT' and 'rF' when '~' would have been better so it's had some positive impact at least.  Let me know what you think.

If I get brain-lock later I might redo a couple of the basic-editing videos to since those ones probably need it the most.

Cheers,

Derek

[Pento]

Derek, it's very interesting.
I will post to my blog about vim link to your screencasts =)

On Aug 16, 1:32 am, Derek Wyatt <ewipla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just popped my head in to let you know that I've started putting up

> some Vim Tutorial Screencasts athttp://vimeo.com/user1690209/videos.
> I'll also be trying out some little one-liners on Twitter athttp://twitter.com/derekwyatt.

[caruso_g]

Derek,
wow, really impressive… thanks a lot, great work.
I have a request, well, a pair actually, may I? :)
1) could you, please, speak a little bit s l o w l y? I am sorry, I am
not english mother language so I have some difficulties in
understanding spoken english. Of course, I think I am not the only one
(that's why a lot of transcripts in these kind of screencasts, but, I
know, that would be too much… :) )
2) could you use a program to show keys you use for commands? There
are a lot of them out there, but it would help a lot to understand
keys sequence while using MacVim

Thanks again, they are so useful even just watching at them.

[Derek Wyatt]

(Quoted email is below. This is a limitation of the BlackBerry)

Starting with the "Destruction is Good" screencast, I've started using KeyCastr to show the keys I'm hitting. Does that work for you to help in seeing what I'm doing?

I will definitely try to start speaking more slowly :). I always worry that I'm taking too long so I tend to speak quickly - I'll try and fix that.

I'm going to do a few more basic editing videos soon once I'm happy with the KeyCastr stuff as not seeing those keys is probably a big barrier to the less-initiated.

Cheers,
Derek

Entered using opposable digits on my BlackBerry.

-----Original Message-----
From: caruso_g <peppe...@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:43:40
To: vim_use<vim...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Vim Tutorial Screencasts

[caruso_g]

Derek,
thanks so much. Really better with KeyCastr! Just a tip, wait the time
it disappear before to type the following commands, it will also help
you to speak slowly.
Once again thanks for trying to help us with my requests. :)

Two question?
Could you make a screencast on how to choose and install plugins?
(http://groups.google.com/group/vim_mac/t/35bb63d305ebad33?hl=en)
And, which color scheme is it? :) (from here you can understand I am
"just" a designer :P )

[Ben Fritz]

On Aug 15, 4:32 pm, Derek Wyatt <ewipla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just popped my head in to let you know that I've started putting up

> some Vim Tutorial Screencasts athttp://vimeo.com/user1690209/videos.
> I'll also be trying out some little one-liners on Twitter athttp://twitter.com/derekwyatt.

>
> This has been a bit of an experiment over the last few months and I've
> found that I enjoy doing them, so it works for me.  If other people
> can get something out of it, then all the better!
>

I haven't looked at more than a few minutes of a few of these, but
they look pretty good. Nice work! They all seem to be found in
http://vimeo.com/tag:vim (though there is some garbage there as well).

I'm thinking about adding a link to http://vimeo.com/tag:vim or to
just your own videos (http://vimeo.com/user1690209/videos) to the list
on the wiki here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_documentation#Vim_references.2C_tutorials.2C_guides

(note that such a link is NOT a good wiki page by itself)

Does anyone (especially John Beckett) have an opinion on this?

[Derek Wyatt]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I haven't looked at more than a few minutes of a few of these, but

they look pretty good. Nice work! They all seem to be found in
http://vimeo.com/tag:vim (though there is some garbage there as well).

I'm thinking about adding a link to http://vimeo.com/tag:vim or to
just your own videos (http://vimeo.com/user1690209/videos) to the list
on the wiki here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_documentation#Vim_references.2C_tutorials.2C_guides

(note that such a link is NOT a good wiki page by itself)

Thanks Ben.  That would be cool :)

Cheers,

Derek 

[John Beckett]

Ben Fritz wrote:
> I'm thinking about adding a link to http://vimeo.com/tag:vim
> or to just your own videos
> (http://vimeo.com/user1690209/videos) to the list on the wiki
> here:
>
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_documentation#Vim_references.2C_
> tutorials.2C_guides

Good idea, but just the second I think because the first has
garbage as you noted.

John

[Mark Woodward]

Hi Derek,

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:09 +0000, Derek Wyatt wrote:
> (Quoted email is below. This is a limitation of the BlackBerry)
>

> Starting with the "Destruction is Good" screencast, ...[snip].
>
> Cheers,
> Derek

thanks for these vids. Great stuff

--
Mark

[David Fishburn]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Derek Wyatt<ewip...@gmail.com> wrote:
...

These look good Derek.

In addition to the other comments on how you might improve your videos
can I suggest you create another video which precedes all the other
videos.

This one should show you how to setup your .vimrc file and what
entries you put in it.
For example, setting nocompatible (simply by having a .vimrc), what
wildmode you have used and so on.

A stock Vim does not have the features enabled you have shown in your
videos, this might mislead people trying to get value from them.

So, a quick video, or link showing the salient features within it that
you using would be a terrific leg up.

Dave

[Derek Wyatt]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM, David Fishburn <dfishb...@gmail.com> wrote:

In addition to the other comments on how you might improve your videos
can I suggest you create another video which precedes all the other
videos.

This one should show you how to setup your .vimrc file and what
entries you put in it.
For example, setting nocompatible (simply by having a .vimrc), what
wildmode you have used and so on.

A stock Vim does not have the features enabled you have shown in your
videos, this might mislead people trying to get value from them.

So, a quick video, or link showing the salient features within it that
you using would be a terrific leg up.

That's a fantastic idea.  Thanks Dave.  I'll pop that one up the very near future.  I want to do the last in the three part series on basic movement and then I'll toss up some stuff on the vimrc.

Cheers!

Derek