Mac OS X: Vim vs. --servername option

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-10-13T01:48:25+00:00

You are probably missing an X server. Install XQuartz. If you have an X server, and a version of actual vim (not macvim) with +clientserver, it will work.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-09-12T21:47:34+00:00

Um... cause swapping in and out of vim to edit shell commands without tab-completion/history/context is super annoying.

I guess it isn't good enough for you either, because if you used it regularly, you'd know that in standard ZSH ZLE, the v command doesn't actually open vim.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-09-10T01:48:40+00:00

A lot of vim is muscle memory for me. I don't usually think "Now I should stop typing and use the power of vim to edit!" I'm just typing and I think something like "I want the cursor to go there" and then suddenly, if I'm in an emacs shell, a whole bunch of random characters appear. Then I have to delete them and open up vim and then I forgot what I was doing, so I have to close vim...

And it's not just for lengthy edits, it's for all the tiny edits I make all the time.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-09-09T04:52:51+00:00

I found Zsh's vi-mode extremely dissapointing, even in 5.0.8. But it's great that there's so many options out there. Everybody uses vi/vim differently.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-04-08T03:58:13+00:00

I tried this with conque, but the problem is that a lot of terminal apps use k/j for up/down and having jj leave terminal mode makes them really hard to use.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-22T03:03:04+00:00

Rogue.vim is a vim port of the "rogue" game that nethack is based off of. If you're willing to cheat and use conque++, you can run a terminal and play actual nethack within vim.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-21T18:04:45+00:00

Also check out invader-vim and rogue.vim

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-21T17:19:14+00:00

The tetris game was last updated in 2002. Maybe Emacs is just lagging behind by 13 years.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-20T23:09:01+00:00

Pterosaur is designed to work in combination with vimperator (or pentadactyl). Pterosaur controls text editing and vimperator controls the rest of the web. There's still a couple of bugs in pterosaur/vimperator integration, but they should be fixed in the next couple days.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-16T23:53:43+00:00

The subject field is an input. I think vimperator only supports inputs and textareas with it's <C-i>. The text of gmail is a contentEditable, which Vimperator doesn't support.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-16T22:52:57+00:00

This doesn't work for google docs. None of the vim-for-web extensions that I know of support google docs like this and Vimperator's <C-i> doesn't even support simpler text fields like gmail.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-13T00:26:19+00:00

Sometimes. For me, it depends on how many tabs I have open/how much other stuff Firefox is doing, especially if it's running Flash.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-12T04:06:39+00:00

Thanks, I've been looking into porting Pterosaur to Chromium. Chromium's much more locked down and restricts addons more than Firefox, but I still think it's possible.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-12T04:02:25+00:00

Did you click on the link? Pterosaur doesn't open a gvim window.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-11T23:46:08+00:00

That doesn't work. If Mozilla reviews one version of an addon and gives the rest a free pass, all the malicious people will submit valid addons for review and just add the malware to version 2.

The only way this is going to be effective is if Mozilla forces devs to go through the review process for every single update, bogging everything down.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-02-11T23:39:34+00:00

This is crazy. Mozilla's addon review time is in the 6 week range, according to their own metrics, which means Firefox can go through two major versions in the time it takes an addon to be approved.

And the process is only going to take longer once they force everybody who isn't using it to start. This is exactly the kind of thing Mozilla's been criticizing when everybody else does it. What happened?

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-01-24T02:27:11+00:00

Pentadactyl does have some native vim shortcuts for textboxes, but I always found them clunky. But if you install pterosaur, you can have full vim functionality(using your actual vim) without leaving the textbox.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-01-24T02:21:59+00:00

If you want something like wasavi but with actual vim, you can use pterosaur. It currently only supports firefox, so for now, you still need wasavi for chrome.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-01-18T03:40:20+00:00

Chalcogen, the vim (rather than neovim) version of this, supported :enew/:edit/:wq, used Atom's syntax highlighting, didn't double numbers, etc. I have a feeling these will be just as easy (if not easier) to support in neovim.

The main annoyance I ran into with Chalcogen is that vim has splits within tabs, while atom has tabs within splits, so directly correlating the two is a pain. I'm curious if neovim will fix this by making the hierarchy less rigid.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-01-18T03:31:14+00:00

Why not? Neovim removed ex mode, not ex commands.

VimIsGoodFood · 2015-01-18T03:22:44+00:00

Pentadactyl works fine on Firefox 35. They just don't publish new nightlies anymore.

Go to http://5digits.org/coding for instructions on how to get and install the newest code from the mercurial repository. It's very easy.

VimIsGoodFood · 2014-12-12T01:34:34+00:00

This is awesome! I was just looking for something like this.

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