Category Archives: Vim

An Evernote backed Journal using Vim/Emacs

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Ryan Svihla

I journal quite a bit and my holy grail has been using my favorite text editor (Vim or Vim bindings) with Evernote to store the everything in a smart searchable format. Today I stumbled onto a neat little tool that makes … Continue reading →

Also posted in Kanban, Management, Metrics, Productivity, Quality, Theory Of Constraints, Workflow | 3 Comments

Web Development Stack In OSX

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Derick Bailey

It has been almost a month since I ventured out into contracting and took up OSX on a Macbook Pro as my primary operating system. In that time, I’ve been very fortunate to have Joey Beninghove guide me through the … Continue reading →

Also posted in Behavior Driven Development, Command Line, Git, Productivity, RSpec, Ruby, Source Control, Test Automation, Testing, Tools and Vendors, Unit Testing | 7 Comments

Error detected while processing vimrc error when using UTF-8 characters in listchars variable

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Joshua Flanagan

This error stumped me for a while, and I didn’t find any good answers on Google, so hopefully this can help someone else. I’m running gVim 7.2 on Windows – this information may not apply to other versions/platforms. Problem I’ve … Continue reading →

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Albacore Feature Preview: Building C# Code With CSC.exe

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I’ve been meaning to do this for a very long time… it’s been asked for multiple times and it’s been on my list of things to do for a very long time… but it’s finally happening! I’m finally putting a … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Albacore, C#, Rake, Unit Testing | 2 Comments

Vim+Grep: Find All Occurrences Of Text In Your Project

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I’m in the middle of some sweeping changes in albacore – changing the .path_to_command property to .command for all of the tasks that run an external tool. The core of the change is easy. I have a RunCommand module that … Continue reading →

Also posted in Albacore, Productivity, Ruby, Smoke Test | 7 Comments

Trying To Get Vim Intellisense Working. Help?!

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Setup: I’m running Windows 7 x64 with gVim installed. I have Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 installed, and am trying to get vim intellisense up and running. This plugin provides intellisense features for languages such as C#, C++, Java, and … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, C#, Tools and Vendors, Visual Studio | 9 Comments

ZenTest+Autospec Is An RSpec TDDer’s Best Friend

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Derick Bailey

In all the time that I’ve been using RSpec (almost a year now), I never knew about the zentest or autospec tools until I was recently watching a code kata that was using Ruby and RSpec. … so, now I … Continue reading →

Also posted in Albacore, Behavior Driven Development, Command Line, Continuous Integration, Productivity, Rake, RSpec, Ruby, Unit Testing | 3 Comments

Using Vim As Your C# Code Editor From Visual Studio

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Derick Bailey

No, not through ViEmu or VsVim… I mean, actual honest to goodness Vim. I’ve been working with Ruby for a not quite a year now (though, not much recently) and in that time I’ve tried a lot of editors and … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, C#, Productivity, Resharper, Visual Studio | 8 Comments

Find And Replace With Regular Expressions In Vim / ViEmu

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Here’s another entry in my how-i-saved-a-few-hundred-keystrokes blog posts on using Vim / ViEmu with Visual Studio.   The Code That Needs To Change I’ve got a data access method that is mapping around 50 fields into an object from a … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, C#, Productivity, Refactoring | 2 Comments

Eliminating Repetitious Coding With Vim / ViEmu And Macros

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Anyone that has been following me on twitter recently is probably aware that I’ve been trying to learn Vim and ViEmu for Visual Studio. It’s been a very slow, somewhat painful learning process, but I think it is finally starting … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, C#, Refactoring, Tools and Vendors | 3 Comments