Searching for l337 VIM videos

drostin77 · 2009-10-27 09:37:37

OK. I think I am going to get in trouble / moved for posting this here but the programming forums seemed the most likely place to get a response. I work as a coder, and use VIM all day. Sometimes I just blow my own mind with how fast I can zoom around and transform an entire file (or multiple files). And I've only been vimming for < 1 year. So I thought to myself during a break at work: "Wow, I bet those VIM masters who Have been vimming since before VIM had an M can throw down some SERIOUSLY rapid VIM action, I wanna check it out." And so I googled "amazing vim videos" and "l337 vim videos" and was totally disappointed. Has anyone ever seen a totally l337 vim video? If so you should post it, if not you should make it, then post it

P.S. No intent to start an editor war, I'd be (almost) just as stoked to see a totally l337 Emacs video or whatever other editor video

japetto · 2009-10-30 22:02:03

Not sure if this is exactly what you want, but this is a good video from Bram / google tech talks (I found it useful):

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … firefox-a#

Lich · 2009-10-31 11:34:25

The above link is a good start, but wtf is a "l337" VIM video? VIM (as any Linux application) comes with documentation. Read it.

Cyrusm · 2009-10-31 21:56:14

I'd like to say, also as a big vim fanboy, that I agree. Vim is a well built tool for efficient text editing. but at the same time I highly doubt you are going to find any "l337 H4x0R" videos of vim like the ones you see for compiz and the like. mostly because using vim may be fun and exciting, but watching someone else use vim, no matter how elite, really isn't. It's like playing chess vs. watching someone play chess. However, I commend your enthusiasm and encourage you to keep working on your vim skills. and if one day you're all like "whoa! look at me go!" put a screen cast on youtube or something.

p.s. instead of "l337" (because most vim users aren't 12 year old hacker wannabes.) try searching for VIM video tutorial or vim tricks video, I've already found some pretty good results

rson451 · 2009-10-31 22:40:44

The guy behind werkzeug has a screencast of him using vim to create a 30 minute wiki. He flies but doesn't do anything too fancy.

zowki · 2009-11-01 05:44:43

drostin77 wrote:

OK. I think I am going to get in trouble / moved for posting this here but the programming forums seemed the most likely place to get a response. I work as a coder, and use VIM all day. Sometimes I just blow my own mind with how fast I can zoom around and transform an entire file (or multiple files). And I've only been vimming for < 1 year. So I thought to myself during a break at work: "Wow, I bet those VIM masters who Have been vimming since before VIM had an M can throw down some SERIOUSLY rapid VIM action, I wanna check it out." And so I googled "amazing vim videos" and "l337 vim videos" and was totally disappointed. Has anyone ever seen a totally l337 vim video? If so you should post it, if not you should make it, then post it
P.S. No intent to start an editor war, I'd be (almost) just as stoked to see a totally l337 Emacs video or whatever other editor video

Why not you post a l33t vim video? I want to see how much an average vim user can do.

N30N · 2009-11-02 17:20:42

While looking for something totally different I just came across these videos, only checked out the teaster (wasn't impressed — no match for my vimfoo ).

Anyway just thought I'd share.

Edit: Oh and ttyshare may have something (I don't have time to watch people typing).

Last edited by N30N (2009-11-02 17:24:27)

drostin77 · 2009-11-06 06:57:30

The above link is a good start, but wtf is a "l337" VIM video? VIM (as any Linux application) comes with documentation. Read it.

Sorry to offend. I have read much of the vim documentation, and a lot of tutorials, and I've played around a lot as well. I was not looking for a big old command/macro/this is what vim does. I am very grateful that VIM does (as a reasonably high %age of Linux applications do) come with documentation. I was thinking more speed-of-use, you know, the same way you'd be impressed if someone dealt cards 10x faster than you can or played your favorite video game at a level you can't even imagine.

The guy behind werkzeug has a screencast of him using vim to create a 30 minute wiki. He flies but doesn't do anything too fancy.

Heheh nice, downloading it now!

Not sure if this is exactly what you want, but this is a good video from Bram / google tech talks (I found it useful):
7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … firefox-a#

Looks... educational Not the FAST PACED VIM ACTION I was hoping for though

p.s. instead of "l337" (because most vim users aren't 12 year old hacker wannabes.) try searching for VIM video tutorial or vim tricks video, I've already found some pretty good results

Heheh ya, I used more intelligent search words on google. But I mean, if I'm gonna go onto a forum and request videos of speed-editing I'm dropping all pretenses of making an intelligent request Also I think "whoah look at me go" all the time in vim. Funny though, like any muscle-memory task ( I think making editing into a muscle memory task is a big part of why VIM is so powerful) sometimes the muscle part outruns the brain and terrible things start happening in my editor. Thank god for undo, and curse capslock!

Heheh thanks for humoring me guys, do come back if you stumble upon an amazing video, b/c as much as you may think watching people type is boring I know some days you guys are as bored at work as I was when I made this topic

davvil · 2009-11-06 10:57:22

When reading the subject I thought about the tilte of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCiVCiku3cM. However one of the reponses, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQAd41VA … onse_watch, is certainly more impressive for me.

It would be really cool to have something like this in vim. Not necessarily the spreadsheet function, which is also nice, but mainly the autoformatting of tables.

Last edited by davvil (2009-11-06 10:57:50)

jakobm · 2009-11-07 17:30:08

I can recommend ShowMeDo. There are not only videos about many programming languages but about vim, too: Vim Videos, Tutorials and Screencasts.

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