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your right and I have seen my percentage time on vim get higher an higher over the months, but thats from persistance. Its slow progress because I mainly work in eclipse and the vim plugins aren't 100% great for me.

Vim is just hard work getting going, e.g. in HTML I like to have the closing tag automatically done for me which im sure vim can do but i've just not had chance to look into. There are 100 other small things like this which I solve one at a time but often I just go 'cock it' and open it up in another editor. But then I want to split the window and open vim again....



Try SnipMate(1) for tab-completion and autoComplPop(2) for auto-completion.

(1) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540 (2) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1879

It took me one month and a half to stop using TextMate. Once you are accustomed to oOaAiI, rR, wWeEbB or ci( or all the rest it's very hard to open TextMate and take it seriously.


Put this in .vimrc to wrap a block of text with an HTML/XML element (including attributes!): http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip346

It's beautiful because you can just write (or paste) text, then easily add the markup afterwards.


Yeah, I'm sure there's something for it but I took the lazy programmer's road of just using Haml and Sass for everything.




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