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vim-adventures.com

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Vim Adventures

Learning Vim while playing a game

#Coding Games #Online Learning #Online Education 122 social mentions
Productivity Power Tools Landing Page
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Productivity Power Tools

Extension for Visual Studio - A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
Pricing:
- Open Source
4. With emacs, you suddenly have a vast operating surface. You can choose to use it just as your editor or you can use it as an operating system: email, calendering, note taking, calculations, twitter, rss, text based browser, file manager, http request playground etc. Org mode is essential emacs experience. You can add the rest of them very slowly [1]: vscodevim.vim: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevim.vim.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 358 social mentions
Doom Emacs Landing Page

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Doom Emacs

Emacs configuration similar to Spacemacs but faster and lighter.

#Text Editors #IDE #Knowledge Management 154 social mentions
Vimium Landing Page

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Vimium

The Hacker's Browser.

I started by using vimium so that I'd navigate the browser with vim key-bindings, since I spend so much time in there. https://vimium.github.io/ Then after that, I just started using vim and keeping with it. To me, the biggest hurdle was switching between modes. Hitting esc was too far for me. So I found some post that helped me configure vim that bound "ii" to command mode. So to switch between insert mode and command mode was just "i" and "ii". Nowadays, I use the escape key. It's second nature by now. But I'm still trying to make navigation with 't' and 'f' more natural. I think it's just persisting, honestly.

#Web Browsers #Text Editors #Web Development Tools 26 social mentions