Vimcasts

by va_coder • 16 years ago

277 42 16 years ago

If you're using Chrome right-click the video and open Video in New Tab or you'll get badly-resized, and pretty much unreadable text.

Looks much better in Firefox at the reduced size, but you'll probably still want to right-click and View Video to see it at its best.

oscardelben3• 16 years ago

It's ok for me in chrome (mac os x)

ZeroGravitas2• 16 years ago

Doesn't look like there's been any action in the bug tracking this issue:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19113

Are you running the very latest nightly code?

nelstrom5• 16 years ago

Or you could subscribe to the podcast, and watch it offline: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcas...

brown9-2• 16 years ago

Thanks, I was just about to ask about the badly-resized video.

Also, thanks for revealing this "open Video in new tab" feature I've never seen before. Chrome is very pleasing in this manner.

oscardelben3• 16 years ago

From the about page:

>Vimcasts is produced by Drew Neil (aka nelstrom), who came to Vim from TextMate. He made the switch when starting work at a company that uses Linux workstations. His choice of text editor was influenced by collegues.

Textmate is great, but this is something that concern me as well, as sooner or later I'll have to start over with a new editor. Hopefully I'll be able to learn something through these screencasts.

bittersweet• 16 years ago

I, and as have a lot of others, went from TextMate to Vim. I was really looking into something fresh, and learning Vim has been a breath of fresh air.

I found it comparable to when I switched over from SVN to Git, it really made me revitalized my programming, I was looking forward to work with my new tools! I had that same feeling when picking up Vim, so I can wholeheartedly recommend!

rmoriz3• 16 years ago

awesome. please continue!

rmoriz3• 16 years ago

One note: please activate page caching. looks like your slicehost is quite busy atm.

nelstrom5• 16 years ago

Vimcasts.org runs on Radiant CMS, which has page caching enabled by default. My problem was too many app instances spinning up. I've limited the PassengerMaxPoolSize and PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp both to 2, which seems to have fixed it.

I appreciate this burst of traffic to help me get to the bottom of this.

unignorant• 16 years ago

Excellent! I tend to switch around between vim, emacs, and textmate -- this may give me the impetus to learn vim a bit more fully.

hubb• 16 years ago

site looks down :( http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/vimcasts.org

nelstrom5• 16 years ago

I gave the server a kick, so it should be back up now. Thanks for your patience.

thibaut_barrere2• 16 years ago

Hi Drew - I'm trying to find an email to contact you but cannot, I'll try here then: I'd like to add vimcasts to learnivore.com, is it possible ?

tfh2• 16 years ago

The site is beautifully designed. Minimal, simple and effective. just like vim :)

erlanger• 16 years ago

I'll pay vim many compliments, "minimal" is not one of them.

tfh2• 16 years ago

What i like about vim's UI is that it's very reduced to a minimum. New users have no idea how powerful it is.

hello_moto2• 16 years ago

nelstrom, may I request for screencasts geared toward beginners? :D

nelstrom5• 16 years ago

Of course - and you're not the only one asking. The latest episode on modal editing ("the newbie killer") is a step back to basics. However, I don't intend to cover the material that you can find in the vimtutor.

hello_moto2• 16 years ago

Thanks!

25thhour• 16 years ago

Great pacing and clearly communicated. Has helped me no end to get up to speed with Vim in my new job.

nfnaaron4• 16 years ago

This is a good example of how to do a simple tutorial.

The tutorial video itself is well done.

Following the video is a concise recap of what was covered in the video.

At the end is a short, relevant list of "learn more" resources.

Well done.

ldh• 16 years ago

Awesome! I've been trying to immerse myself in Vim lately, so I'm excited to check these out.

graywh2• 16 years ago

Personally, I've found some of the advice dubious or just plain wrong (e.g. trying to map control plus number key). But some of it looks terrific.

graywh2• 16 years ago

It's not nice to downvote a factual statement (that there is some advice that just doesn't work) without providing a counter-argument.

Seriously, vim doesn't handle maps for ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc. or ctrl-shift-[, etc. because terminals don't have a way to represent them to running programs. (Technically, xterm has a mode, but no programs understand it.) And gui vim doesn't handle them (though, it could) because that would be too different from what terminal vim can do.

cosmok• 16 years ago

I would also recommend the Vim Tutorial Videos here: http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/

brianjherman• 16 years ago

If you append all the vimrc together you get this: http://brianh.nfshost.com/vimrc.html

chewbranca• 16 years ago

Glad to see a vimcasts site, more perspectives on vim are always welcome. I saw in the comments that you're using randiant cms, one thing you might want to check out is that the source code for railscasts.com is open source and is a pretty solid video cast site.

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