a wanderer in transit » vim http://www.li-ping.com/transit Tue, 25 May 2010 12:38:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Vi/Vim Goodness http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/11/02/vivim-goodness/ http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/11/02/vivim-goodness/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:27:58 +0000 ping http://www.li-ping.com/transit/?p=59 My recent fail whale of an upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic made me realised that I have forgotten to note down a couple of stuff here. This girl geek cannot live without her vi/vim but the stock install of vim-tiny in Ubuntu is woefully inadequate for the CLI text-editing ninja. Please upgrade to vim (full) from the Synaptic Package Manager or using:
sudo apt-get install vim

For starters, this will allow you to use the cursor keys (up/down/left/right) properly in insert mode and you will be able to use custom colour schemes for syntax colouring. My favourite scheme so far is the wombat.

Vim Coloured Goodness

There are probably much better editors available if you do a lot of coding. I use Eclipse when I need a full IDE, but for my dabble-ish codes on the laptop, vim is usually quite sufficient.

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