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"Lightweight Task Management For Vim"

Combining the power and beauty of Vim with shortcuts for effective and transparent task management, Quicktask is the best way to manage your TO-DO list in the editor you already use."

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Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of

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There are many other editors, some being quite excellent. There is no reason why you cannot use one of them, however, there are some advantages in using VIM. Likewise none of these reasons are unique to VIM.

With the sudden rise in Unix use (Linux and Mac OS X, in particular) the text editor known as VIM ("vi improved") has become ubiquitous
Vim has a small footprint in RAM and on the CPU. A given system can support a great many VIM users at once.
Vim has a lot of "superpowers", which make editing quite efficient.
Vim has "geek appeal".
Vim has a very active user/developer community. It always has.

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I have put together a color scheme for (G)Vim called Wombat. Dark gray background with easy-on-the-eyes font colors. It shares some similarities with the Desert color scheme

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vi/vim cheat sheet

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This post features a VI Help Sheet, a cheat sheet for the VI Editor, for all web-developers out there who are working on Linux. The help sheet was designed by GoSquared and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

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ZenCoding.vim : vim plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding.

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Moving efficiently
Stay out of insert mode

In general, you want to spend as little of your time in vim's insert mode as possible, because in that mode it acts like a dumb editor. This is why most vim novices spend so much time in insert mode -- it makes

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