Vimfest 2017, 22 - 24 September

Vimfest 2016 recap

The group of Vimfest visitors in 2016. You can find more images on flickr.

Matthias Günther

@wikimatze

• vim-radio - a plugin which uses the mplayer to display predefined radio stations.
• matrix.org - a new basis for open, interoperable, decentralised real-time communication
• dirvish - a directory viewer for vim
• :earlier it's used to go back in the history (check out https://github.com/mbbill/undotree (preferred) and http://sjl.bitbucket.org/gundo.vim/ to visualize the tree)
• vim-exchange - easy text exchange operator for Vim
• @: repeat the last command (=> therefore space can be kept as a leader, especially since after @: you can just use @@ to rerun the command)
• <C-y> repeat the words above the cursor
• exuberant ctags is dead, long live universal-ctags
• https://github.com/moll/vim-bbye/ delete buffers in the right way
• password unix-like manager https://www.passwordstore.org/
• vimb a very minimalized browser with full vim shortcuts
• NyaoVim is an extensible web-enhanced Neovim frontend
• <C-Alt> will trigger block select for the mouse (not a Vim feature; depends on your terminal emulator) => works for xfce-terminal and ROXterm
• Smyck color schem - color scheme for Terminal.app, iTerm2, Vim, MacVim, Sublime Text2 and Textmate

Daniel Siepmann

@layneobserdia

• vim-php-refactoring
• tldr a CLI client to user contributed simplified man pages
• Read Awesome lists to check out nice findings. https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
• Finish first working version of http://codemonitoring.readthedocs.io/en/feature-first-import-mechanism/
• http://taskwarrior.org/
• dotfiles
• config for gutentags https://github.com/DanielSiepmann/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/configs/plugins/gutentags.vim

Justin M. Keyes

@justinmk

• terminal w3m/lynx wrapper (cf. https://github.com/HerringtonDarkholme/w3m.vim ).
• All firefox text fields are vim: https://github.com/ardagnir/pterosaur
• slides-hack: https://github.com/justinmk/config/blob/master/.config/nvim/init.vim#L1289-L1334

Dmitry Maksimov

@kolo

• nvim remote plugin help https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/runtime/doc/remote_plugin.txt
• nvim ruby host for remote plugins https://github.com/alexgenco/neovim-ruby
• diff-highlight source https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highlight

Daniel Hahler

@blueyed

• PRs for plugins using :redir, that can use the new execute() function (e.g. EnhancedJumps)
• syntax coloring for background of inactive windows etc (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5302)
• running test with one keystroke for many programming languages https://github.com/janko-m/vim-test
• Spacemacs for Neovim: https://github.com/Tehnix/spaceneovim
• vim-commentary comment things in vim
• rofi A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement
• useful zsh aliases

Sven Guckes

@guckes

• Newsbeuter/RSS: http://newsbeuter.org/
• FiveFilters Fulltext RSS
• Book about git http://gitbu.ch/
• Book about zsh http://gitbu.ch/
• tpp stands for text presentation program and is an ncurses-based presentation tool
• i3 dotfiles of zartstrom
• i3 lock file
• vim-startify this plugin provides a start screen for Vim and Neovim.

Random

• interactive cheatsheet on the terminal with https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat
• capture the keystrokes in vim http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Capture_all_keys
• gutentags: resolve symlinks with g:gutentags_resolve_symlinks
• cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player: https://cmus.github.io/
• mycli a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
• roxterm: change colors https://github.com/tqmz/dotfiles/tree/master/bin
• Vim Adventures #games #vimkeybindings
• Firefox: VimFx #navigation #vimkeybindings
• http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/01/vimfx-improve-firefox-keyboard-use/
• rename string and filenames in python https://pypi.python.org/pypi/repren/0.3.8
• https://github.com/jlevy/repren
• meld a visual diff and merge tool
• git-lfs Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.

Recordings

The following talks have been recorded

Introduction to Git for daily usage, gitconfig tweaks, diff-highlight, meld, git-lfs by Daniel Siepmann

zshbuch, tldr, Das Git Buch, awesome list, taskwarrior by Daniel Siepmann

Neovim philosophy and features part I by Justin M. Keyes

Neovim philosophy and features part II by Justin M. Keyes

Neovim philosophy and features part III by Justin M. Keyes