Normally Vim is damn fast and this is one reason why I love it. But today I got an XML file with over 3 million lines and after opening that file I wanted to jump to the end of the file. This took me over 1 minute which is unacceptable …

Just updated my #Vim config and wombat256 colorscheme to show a nice
color column area with a decent non-distracting background color.

This is how it looks like (click to enlarge):

I just moved my wombat256 colorscheme for console #Vim to a separate Git repository. This makes it easier for you guys to use it simply by using pathogen & Co. I also updated my Vim repo to make use of this separate repo.

Checkout it out on https://github.com/gergap …

Normally #Vim uses easy to remember mnemonics like d2w (delete two words).
But when it comes to section navigation using ‘[[‘, ‘]]‘, ‘[]‘, and ‘][‘ it looks weired.
At least if you expect, that the opening and closing brackets are somehow matching opening
and closing braces.

(In C like languages function scopes {…} are sections …

After working a while with the Solarized colorscheme I came back to my wombat256 colorscheme, which is based on the original wombat for gvim from Lars H. Nielsen. Yesterday I improved it a little bit to fix some issues that I didn’t like:

• Fix background color of NonText
• Add …

YouCompleteMe (YCM) is really an awsome plugin. But today this blog post is not about completion support, it’s about YCM’s FixIt feature. If you are developer and have seen already compiler errors like this:

expected ';' at end of declaration

then I’m sure you also thought already: “If …

A while ago I’ve written the little vim-konsole plugin which makes Damian Conway’s vim-autoswap working with KDE’s Konsole application.

This caused some redraw issues in Vim when switching buffers, whichs is very annoying. I needed to press C-L to force a redraw everytime this issue occured.

I …

One of the advantages of console Vim is, that you can use it in a console SSH session. This way you can work on a remote machine also on slow connections and don’t need laggy remote desktop software. This is even more important if the remote machine is a …

Hi guys,

I just made my personal Vim Cheat Sheet available using Dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q6ka12yiag6lc66/vim-cheatsheet.md?dl=0

Vim really rocks. Often people don’t believe that an editor that looks so “old school” can be effective. It’s really hard to explain. The best …

Today I needed to decode a part of Base64 data which was embedded in an XML file. Normally I would store this fragment in an own file and use the base64 commandline tool for decoding. But today, due to my recent Vim activities, I was asking myself if I could …

It would be reason enough that Vim is so powerful. With a few keystrokes you can achieve results where with GUI editors you need a lot of click and point and repetitive tasks which you can simply automate with Vim. With Vim I can leave my hands on the home …