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Switch To Vim For Good

This guide is coming from an email I used to send to newcomers to Vim. It is not intended to be a complete guide, it is about how I did the switch.

Some background: my decision to switch to Vim has been made a long time ago. Coming from TextMate 1, I wanted to learn an editor that is Open Source (so I don’t lose my time learning a tool that can be killed), cross platform (so I can use it everywhere), and powerful enough (so I won’t regret TextMate). For these reasons, Vim has always been the editor I wanted to learn, but it took me several years before I did it in a way that works for me. I tried to switch progressively, using the Janus Vim distribution for a few months, then got back to using TextMate 2 for a time, waiting for the next attempt… here is what finally worked for me.

Non Optional

1. Watch the Derek Wyatt videos in order (at least the “Novice” ones for now): http://derekwyatt.org/vim/tutorials/
2. Read the first part of this Sta

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//Adds $.xhr and jQuery-like $.ajax methods to the prescribed namespace.
//Inspired from David Flanagans excellent cross-platform utils http://www.davidflanagan.com/javascript5/display.php?n=20-1&f=20/01.js
//Includes underscore.js _.each and _.extend methods
//modified to behave like jQuery's $.ajax(), not complete.
(function($) {
    var win=window, xhrs = [
           function () { return new XMLHttpRequest(); },
           function () { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); },
           function () { return new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0"); },
           function () { return new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP"); }

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Kefir.Observable.prototype.withIndex = (mapType, fn) ->
  index = 0
  this[mapType]((value) -> fn(value, index++))

ApiController = Ember.Controller.extend

  # With reactive programming
  # (also needs the function withIndex in the top of this file)

  postNotifications: (startCallback) ->

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// Regarding these discussions about Scala class constructor parameters:
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15639078/scala-class-constructor-parameters
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1889454/in-scala-how-do-you-define-a-local-parameter-in-the-primary-constructor-of-a-cl

// Class parameter `fake` is not prefixed by either `val` or `var`
class Testing(fake: Boolean) {
  val buffer = if (fake) null else new StringBuilder()

  def output(str: Any): Unit = {
    // The class parameter `fake` is accessible beyond the construction phase

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am gnapse on github.
• I am gnapse (https://keybase.io/gnapse) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASCLxlhSQ3ZoFyZr7YlHbhD-jI9RoitJ0FdwytXR6XEF7Qo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

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" Surround text currently selected in visual mode
" (The surrounded text is kept selected after being surround)
vmap <leader>" S"lvi"
vmap <leader>' S'lvi'
vmap <leader>` S`lvi`
vmap <leader>( S)lvi(
vmap <leader>{ S}lvi{
vmap <leader>[ S]lvi[
vmap <leader>< S>lvi<