It’s now been almost 3 weeks of me flirting and dating with Vim, and Imust say that I’m impressed by her, and the way she moves. She’s still too fast for me sometimes, and she still do things that confuses me. My memory is also way too bad to remember all the ways to please her – but I’m learning!

The discovery of plugins like NERD_tree, and key remappings in .vimrc has made the transition from TextMate toMacVim bearable. Also watching the Smash Into Vim screencasts has taught me some tricks, and the work ofCarl Lerche and Yehuda Katz, integrating a bunch of plugins to make it easier for newcomers to get started with Vim, really is worth mentioning – you can fetch the complete collection here (with an easy to use installer too!).

I still have to practice a lot to get where Gary Bernhardt is, regarding Vim experience. I have to go through his Play by Play screencast on PeepCode again, to extract some of the goodies that he shows.

This post is written in MacVim, just for the exercise – although I didn’t get to try some of all the shortcuts and commands that I’ve learned. I have to produce some code to do that…