Thalamus was a game developer based in the UK in the mid 80s to early 90s. They had a reputation for flashy games and and pounding soundtracks. Most of their games were highly rated and their first compilation, The Hits, had some amazing games.
Sanxion and Armalyte were among my favourite shoot ’em ups while Hawkeye had great looking parallax scrolling. I thought the Delta theme music was great but the game didn’t grab me like Armalyte did. I’m going to get that game out again later..
Still have the receipt from Turbosoft in the box too!
Vi (or Vim in it’s modern incarnation) is a text editor. It’s a modal? text editor. You can switch from insert mode to normal mode. Insert mode is where you type text into your document, and normal mode is where you type commands that do all sorts of functions. It’s incredibly powerful, incredibly complicated and even exiting the editor is not obvious. 🙂
So it’s always great when I dive into learning something new about Vim. There’s always? something new to learn about Vim, even after more than twenty years of using it. I think there should be a Duolingo for Vim.
So, when you’re watched that, and watched it again, and again to understand it, have a look at the following presentation showing off the power of Vim without plugins.
When you just want to use Vim faster …
The power of Vim is in the commands. That also means it requires practice to learn those commands because they’re usually keyboard shortcuts. There’s no Edit menu to remind you to use something you just learned. With just a few core concepts and memorized keys or functions you can be very efficient at moving around or manipulating text.
It’s always Vi
Things I learned recently:
:set number relativenumber from the last video and this blog post.
:sfind is a game changer. I set the base path to my public_html and sfind will open a file in a new split without figuring out the path.
