Tag Archives: vim

Comment Multiple Lines in Vim

Earlier today I was asked how to comment out multiple lines in Vim. Unfortunately I wasn’t too sure what the best way was and the only one I knew felt less than friendly. Anyway – after some research I’ve nailed a few different methods and thought I’d post them here for people to choose their [...]

Vimrecover – Nice Gem

Its easy to forget some of the best discoveries are made simply by browsing RubyForge.  This is now exception.  Its a nice little Ruby Gem to help Vim users to compare and manage their swp files.  These are produced as you’re editing a file and so if the session dies or there’s a crash then [...]

TextMate-like Vim Plugin

After the gushing praise I keep hearing about TextMate I installed a plugin for Vim which aims to give some of the benifits – though I’m yet to be convinced of its merits*. Today when I was looking for extra bundles for the SnippetsEmu plugin (by far the most comprehensive) I came across a brand-new [...]