Ask HN: A better Vim distribution?

6 points

12 years ago

I'm trying to change my development workflow. Currently I find myself in graphical editors, writing C++ and I dont feel the workflow is great. Mouse to Keyboard, back again.

Ideally I'd like to end up with split screen editing, left hand file navigation, tabs. Do everything from the keyboard. This is going to take some practice getting used to.

So I downloaded the spf13 vim distro: https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim

But now I am realizing I need a lot more knowledge to customize it. I cant just hop in and use it. Things like NERDTree persisting across all tabs. Setting up split screen from the start. Tabs.

Where do I find the balance between becoming productive in vim and learning to customize it to actually continuing to code and make progress as I can with my graphical editors?

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