Meeting Recap

[Tyler Jennings]

First, thanks for showing up last night.  I hope you all enjoyed the meeting, I certainly did.  I think this group could be the beginning of something special.  Ola Bini has already threatened to start an Emacs user's group in Chicago, I take that as a good sign for us!  

For next time, Adam Walters has graciously offered to give an overview of the rails.vim plugin.  I've tentatively scheduled it for about-the-same-time next month =].  I'll send out something formal in the coming weeks.  

The configuration I use, and discussed last night is available here:

http://github.com/tjennings/Vimlander-2-The-Quickening

Evan got me all hot and bothered on 'git grep', the super fast indexed search in Git.  So, I created this on my morning train ride.  It works just like ack.vim as demonstrated last night, but uses 'git grep' instead.  Commands are GitGrep/GitGrepAdd/LGitGrep/LGitGrepAdd.  

http://github.com/tjennings/git-grep-vim

Here's a recap of last night's discussions:

Suggested meeting topics (and who's signed up to present them): 

  Contrasting eclipse / textmate / vim - Andy Maleh

  Rails.vim overview - Adam Walters

  Surround.vim overview - Corey Haines

  How I work with vim (need to flesh out exactly what this is - I have some ideas)

  Vim for Textmate users - convert the masses!

  A deep review of advanced undo/redo support (earlier & later)

  Using CTags

  Registers

  Macros

  Using visual modes

Most of these can be covered easily in 15 or 20 minutes.  So, if you've never given a talk before this is a great opportunity to give it a shot!  

And, of course, there's so much more not listed here.  If you'd like to present a topic or suggest a topic please send an e-mail to the group (or me).

Questions: 

What's the best way to start learning vim?

   

The VIM tutor http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/vimtutor1.html

Vim recipes http://vim.runpaint.org/

Vim wiki http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki (I think this one, right?)

    

Hooking up Autospec w/VIM

   

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2009/05/18/autotest-and-vim-integration/

We had some trouble getting it working however.  If someone has time to figure it out and report back that'd be great (or a good meeting topic!)

   

Resizing windows

'CTRL-W ='  Seems like the one you want to remember, there's a bunch more:

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/windows.html#window-resize

Swapping split windows

'CTRL-W CTRL-R' (Thanks Corey!)

Cheers,

-Tyler Jennings

[Fred Ballard]

Thanks for the recap, Tyler. I did enjoy the meeting. I'm looking forward to future ones.

Fred

[Jim Breen]

Thanks for the summary.  Sorry I couldn't make it, but I'm looking forward to next month.

Jim