Sometimes you have a lot of code, and your screen isn’t tall enough. I found this blog post that shows you how to set up Vim in a sort of “book-mode” where you have two or more panes that scroll synchronously so that you can see two or more pages of code at once.
Tag Archives: Vim
Getting Started on a Mac
In this post I’ll talk about how to set up your Scipy stack on a Mac, and make some recommendations for other tools: Homebrew for general package management, iTerm2 for a terminal, Solarized for a text editing color scheme, and pathogen for vim package management.
An Introduction to Vim
This post will represent some running notes regarding the use of the Vim editor. Why should you use something as arcane as Vim you ask? Well, sometimes you find yourself on a server or something that doesn’t have any other editors, so you should be know some Vim basics. Plus, it’s fun.
Vim is built on vi, an even more bare-bones editor. At the outset you should know that Vim has two modes, normal or command mode, and edit or insert mode. You add words and stuff in edit mode, and you perform operations like searching, saving, and moving around in normal, or command mode. (I prefer the edit/command terminology.) You can always get into the command mode by hitting ESC.