This last Thursday Alf and I gave a talk at LA Ruby on Vim, in particular how we use Vim to edit Ruby code.  Giles asked us to present on Vim months ago and we finally got around to doing it.

I think it went well considering we probably spent more time figuring out the background color scheme on our slides than preparing what we were going to say.  I wasn’t worried, I’ve been using Vim for 15 years now so it was my favorite kind of speech: one where I felt completely at ease with the subject matter.

In any case here are the slides in a viewable form on Github, as well as the source.  We used the Slideshow gem to set them up.

The slides probably will not be of any particular use to you since they’re rather sparse.  We however added a bunch of links on the end to blogs/screencasts/cool sites we like as well as all of the plugins we mentioned during the talk.

So you don’t have to hunt through the slides here are those links in all their glory:

Links

http://www.vim.org/

MacVim – http://code.google.com/p/macvim/

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips

Cheat Sheet! – http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html

http://items.sjbach.com/319/configuring-vim-right

Screencasts on Vim – http://vimcasts.org/

Vim Tip a Day on Twitter – http://twitter.com/vimtips

http://durdn.com/blog/2008/11/26/vim-mind-share-soaring-roundup-of-10-vim-articles-recent-and-older-gems/

Vim Recipies – http://vim.runpaint.org/toc/

http://biodegradablegeek.com/2007/12/using-vim-as-a-complete-ruby-on-rails-ide/

Plugins

The Rails Plugin – http://rails.vim.tpope.net/

NERD Tree – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658

Command-T – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025

BufExplorer – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=42

AutoTag – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1343

Vimball – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1502

NERDCommenter – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1218

NERDSnippets – http://github.com/scrooloose/nerdsnippets

Align – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=294

RubySingleTest – http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2869