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Top 10 Pitfalls When Switching to Vim

Top 10 Pitfalls When Switching to Vim

Admit it: every time you see a person using Vim, you consider the possibility that they know something you don’t. Why else would they be using an editor that, in your mind, is dated, open-source junk? Think what you wish, but there’s a reason why top developers swear by Vim.

Sublime Text 2 Tips and Tricks (Updated)

Sublime Text 2 Tips and Tricks (Updated)

Sublime Text 2 is one of the fastest and most incredible code editors to be released in a long time! With a community and plugin ecosystem as passionate as this one, it just might be impossible for any other editor to catch up. I’ll show you my favorite tips and tricks today.

Introducing Nettuts+ Fetch

Introducing Nettuts+ Fetch

In addition to producing various helpful apps for web developers, in 2012, we’ll also be commissioning and releasing smaller plugins and extensions. Today, I’d like to announce the first entry in this initiative: “Nettuts+ Fetch” – a Sublime Text plugin.

How to Create a Sublime Text 2 Plugin

How to Create a Sublime Text 2 Plugin

Sublime Text 2 is a highly customizable text editor that has been increasingly capturing the attention of coders looking for a tool that is powerful, fast and modern. Today, we’re going to recreate my popular Sublime plugin that sends CSS through the Nettuts+ Prefixr API for easy cross-browser CSS.

When finished, you’ll have a solid understanding of how the Sublime Prefixr plugin is written, and be equipped to start writing your own plugins for the editor!

Essential TextMate Shortcuts, Tips and Techniques

Essential TextMate Shortcuts, Tips and Techniques

Even after six years, TextMate is still considered by many to be the best code editor available for Mac. The reason why is simple: it’s incredibly powerful, and offers features that even the newest editors don’t yet offer. Add a robust plugin/bundle community on top of it, and you get one heck of a code editor.

I’ll show you some of my favorite shortcuts and tricks today.

Vim Essential Plugin: Markdown to HTML

Vim Essential Plugin: Markdown to HTML

We’re cheating a bit in this episode. Rather than installing an actual plugin, we’ll be using a couple tools to allow us to write and convert Markdown to HTML. It’s really a simple process, and can save great deals of time.


This entry is part 5 of 8 in the Vim Essential Plugins Session
Vim Essential Plugin: Sparkup
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Vim Essential Plugin: Sparkup

The sparkup plugin, inspired by the popular ZenCoding, allows you to rapidly create HTML structures. It’s an essential tool in your Vim handbag!


This entry is part 3 of 8 in the Vim Essential Plugins Session
Vim Essential Plugin: Surround
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Vim Essential Plugin: Surround

Surround.vim, by Tim Pope, is easily one of the most useful plugins available. As the name suggests, it allows you to surround, update, and delete wrapping characters and tags with ease!


This entry is part 2 of 8 in the Vim Essential Plugins Session
Why Cloud9 Deserves your Attention

Why Cloud9 Deserves your Attention

IDEs are a pretty divisive topic among developers – and rightly so. We’re creatures of habit, creating our entire workflow around the tools we use.

Today, I’d like to talk a bit about Cloud9, the latest entry into this saturated market. If you’ve cemented your feet into your favorite code editor, I’m here to review a few points that I think that may just change your mind. In fact, this isn’t like any editor you’ve ever used before.

Vim Essential Plugin: EasyMotion
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Vim Essential Plugin: EasyMotion

In this first episode of Vim Essential Plugins, we’ll be reviewing the helpful EasyMotion plugin, which allows us to be much quicker when traversing our pages.


This entry is part 1 of 8 in the Vim Essential Plugins Session
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