How to boost your Vim productivity

Re:How to boost your Vim productivity by runT1ME on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @04:44PM (#9648828)

I keep my vimrc and .vim/ in Dropbox (and backed up other places) so I'm pretty much planning on using Vim for the rest of my life...

This also means when I had a computer outage and borrowed my wife's MBA without an dev tools aside from what came with OS X, I logged into dropbox, copied my .profile from dropbox and magically had a working, customized Vim on her computer. After a Git clone I was productive in maybe 20 minutes tops. Just imagine trying to do that with visual studio (i've tried, there goes a day).

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Re:How to boost your Vim productivity by et1337 on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @04:48PM (#9648848)

Er, I've done this with Visual Studio... just export your settings as an XML file, import them in the new install, and of course install VsVim[1], and you're good to go.

[1] https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim

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Re:How to boost your Vim productivity by runT1ME on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @04:58PM (#9648945)

Big difference:

1. You have to import/export every time a change is made!

2. Visual Studio takes like 6 hours to install.

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Re:How to boost your Vim productivity by TheEzEzz on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @08:39PM (#9649943)

1. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2253f386(v=vs.110).... solves that issue.

2. I install VS quite a bit, it's not that long at all. More time than sublime et all though, agreed. I usually have it as my "parallel" process while I go clone my repos.

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