Vim
Comments(1) Jamis Buck’s influence on Ruby and Rails development cannot be overestimated, so I was excited this morning to read that he has switched back from Textmate to Vim. I made a similar switch about six weeks ago, though unlike Jamis I don’t have a long history with Vim (some casual use over ssh connections, essentially), so there’s been a lot of learning for me. But too many things annoyed me about Textmate to overlook. For instance, no window splitting! In 2008!
I’ve been an editor floosy over the last couple of years though — for Ruby work I’ve had love affairs with Eclipse, Netbeans, Textmate and now Vim, but Vim looks like it’ll be the one to stick — so much power and configurability, and all straight from the keyboard.
Next, to try out Jamis’s fuzzy finder extension, and NERD tree (a project drawer mentioned in the comments of his blog post).
With the release of the new MacBook, I’ve just moved back to OS X. While MacVim is great, the ability to remap Caps-Lock to Escape is severely underdone. After much searching, I finally found a solution:
PCKeyboardHack
http://www.pqrs.org/tekezo/macosx/keyremap4macbook/extra.html
I just wonder why this isn’t more widely known — it seems there’s a whole heap of people with this issue. Really, it should be built into OS X, but this works pretty well too.