Shit I've Made

• RanvierMUD - NodeJS based MUD engine
• LzHilight - PHP based CLI Syntax Highlighter
• A TON of Vim goodies
  • php.vim - PHP syntax updated for 5.4
  • phpcomplete.vim - PHP Omnicompletion for Vim
  • Skittles Berry - The best Vim colorscheme ever
  • toCterm - Converts hex colors to CLI vim-usable cterm colors

Other Stuff

• Founding member of BuffaloLab - The Buffalo Hackerspace
• Open Source contributions: GNU Screen, Last.FM, Cockatrice, SMAUG
• Organizer of the Buffalo PHP meetup
• Teacher and coordinator at BuffaloLab (Check their schedule for classes)

• Syntax Highlighting
• Syntax checking
• Scripting
• Code Completion
• Plugin architecture
• Multi-file editing

Be able to extend your editor easily (Lua, Lisp, VimL, Python, etc.)

Be able to automate/macro q

• Keyword completion ^N
• Omnicompletion (intellisense) ^X ^O
• Dictionary completion ^X ^K

Your editor should support plugins. If it doesn't, wtf?

• An established database of plugins
• Easy to install
• No dependency hell. I'm looking at you Eclipse.

Has all of the above features plus:

• Modal! Holy crap it's modal... WTF does that mean?
• Registers (pseudo-clipboards)
• Buffers/Tabs
• You will become insanely fast
• Maturity. It's older than you (maybe)
• VimDiff
• Ubiquity. It's everywhere.

What does it mean to be modal?

• Multiple uses for damn-near every key on your keyboard based on context
• You're editing more often than you're creating.
• Glued to homerow. Get your damn hand off the mouse.
• Fast, effecient movement and edits
• Treat the file like a canvas, know where your brush is and where it needs to go

• Copy - Yank text into a register. Like a copy.
  • ["<register>][N]y<motion> - Yank motion
  • ["<register>][N]Y - Yank lines
• Paste - Paste text from a register
  • ["<register>][N]p - Paste after cursor
  • ["<register>][N]P - Paste before cursor

Example:

"ayw - ?
  2Y - ?
2"ap - ?
		

I use tabs wrong, but I don't care because it works.

• Create a new tab
  • :tabnew [file]
• Move between tabs
  • [N]gt - Next tab, or Nth tab
  • gT - Previous tab

Movements

• [N]w & [N]b - forward/backward N words
• [N]} & [N]{ - forward/backward N "paragraphs"
• % - Go to matching brace/bracket/paren
• [N]f<char> & [N]F<char> - forward/backward to specified character

Combine motions, commands and counts to be as effecient as possible

• Abuse word objects
  • ci" - Change Inside Quote
  • cat - Change Around Tag
  • ci[ - Change Inside bracketset
• Use the correct motion
  • 4dw VS df| VS D

• vimtutor - CLI interactive walkthrough bundled with CLI vim
• :help - All the damn helpfiles with Vim
• github.com/shawncplus/dotfiles - My vim configuration
• shawncplus - my gtalk username, IM me any time with questions
• BuffaloLab.org - Month-long Vim class in Buffalo this summer