grep.ro

I'm becoming a Vim user. TextMate has been my editor of choice for a long time now, and it's great, but Vim is simply better. I'm moving past the basic stuff and it already feels more comfortable than anything else. I spend a lot less time moving around a file, both hands are always on the keyboard, and almost any single editing operation I want is just a few keystrokes away.

At the office, my desk is right next to my friend David's, and he's been raving about Vim for a few weeks now, gleefully showing me some feature or another, so I'll blame him for my switching. The road to learning Vim is long and hard (and lots of fun), so it's good to have a travel mate.

Right now I'm looking at ways to customize my Vim: I really miss TextMate's Espresso Libre color scheme, and there's a syntax definition file (for Melody notes) that I want to port. It's not as easy as I hoped, but we'll see.