Using Vim’s tabs like buffers

Stop, stop, stop. This is not how Vim’s tabs are designed to be used. In fact, they’re misnamed. A better name would be “viewport” or “layout”, because that’s what a tab is—it’s a different layout of windows of all of your existing buffers. Trying to beat Vim into 1 tab == 1 buffer is an … Read more

What are the benefits of learning Vim? [closed]

I’ve been using vi and vim also for some 20 years, and I’m still learning new things. David Rayner’s Best of Vim Tips site is an excellent list, though it’s probably more useful once you have some familiarity with vim. I also want to mention the ViEmu site which has some great info on vi/vim … Read more

How can I set up an editor to work with Git on Windows?

Update September 2015 (6 years later) The last release of git-for-Windows (2.5.3) now includes: By configuring git config core.editor notepad, users can now use notepad.exe as their default editor. Configuring git config format.commitMessageColumns 72 will be picked up by the notepad wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edits it. See commit 69b301b … Read more

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