Thank you for this post :)

Nice post!

Cursorline/cursorcolumn are now in my .vimrc with couple of remaps, example jj to escape.

I like the symlink trick with config files. Unbelievably, I had not thought to do that until now.

I don’t like remapping commonly used keys through because then I build a muscle memory which isn’t transferable to other machines which don’t have my settings.

@ Alex Reinisch:

Ok, try the following:

which ctags

For me, it lists two locations:

/usr/bin/ctags is the Mac version
/usr/local/bin/ctags is the Homewbrew version

Try running it from the second location:

/usr/local/bin/ctags -R

If that works, then alias that to ctags. :)

@ Luke Maciak: Sorry, but the princess is in another castle. Is it possible you have an old ctags? Is it possible the alias isn’t right? Should I just try harder? Knowing that I’m at least 67% less awesome than I could be is a real strain on my life.

Great tips! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been using vim (poorly) for a long time – lots of good information here, as well as the tips to install the Solarized color scheme; it’s a nice change from my old favorite ir_black.

Thank you so much.

I only realize now (and I’ve been using vi(m) since 1995) how much I missed your fantastic ‘jj tip‘.

Now I can’ throw away my capslock reconfiguration, you gave me THE solution.

First I was all, pshaaaw, I do mostly AutoCAD so I wouldn’t be able to give up a mouse most of the time anyway, so why bother learning a new text editor… then you showed the auto-close feature… damnit. :P

I guess I have something to do next time I’m bored.

@ Alex Reinisch:

You need to either completely close and reopen Terminal app (like Command+Q close) or run this to reload your profile:

source ~/.profile

Bash won’t know about the stuff you just added to .profile unless one of these things happens. :)

Thanks! Makes sense and it worked—double win. Time to clone ALL THE REPOS!!!
// ctags isn’t working for me.. in a weird way. I’m on mac, so I downloaded through homebrew, and added your offered alias in my ~/.profile. When I run the command in vim, it cries “illegal option!”:
:!ctags -R
ctags: illegal option -- R
usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file ...
Did you post a typo? Or did I somehow get a bad ctags or what? Thoughts?