If you want to improve productivity on any piece of frequently used software there’s a simple solution: ditch the mouse and use keyboard shortcuts instead. Plenty of you already know to hit control-c ...

Vim normally shows basic information at the bottom of the screen, including the file name and the current line number. But the statusline takes this concept much further, with more information ...

Vim speed, zero suffering.

One of the greatest productivity gains you can make is to type less and navigate through your code faster. VsVim, written by Jared Parsons, is an extension for Visual Studio 2010 and later which will ...

IDEs have surrounded developers since long, but the older generation of developers used to write their code right from the terminal window. Although IDEs increase productivity and made it easier to ...

Vim is an extremely powerful editor with a user interface based on Bill Joy's almost 30-year-old vi, but with many new features. The features that make Vim so versatile also sometimes makes it ...

[Screenshot: Open Vim] A couple of years ago, I took an Introduction to Software Development class, in which we covered Unix and used Vim to write a few simple programs. I didn’t really get the point ...

The Vim text editor is not the only piece of ancient software still popular today. After all, Microsoft Word was first released in 1983, a full eight years before Vim. But today’s Word bears little ...