16 Cheat Sheets on 16 Essential Topics for Web Designers

17 Aug // by sogeking

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I’m a programmer. I work with text files for 6-12 hours every weekday so I care about the text editor I use. If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things.

I don’t buy the “you’re thinking 90% of the time and only typing 10% of the time, so your editor doesn’t really matter” argument. Even if the premise is true, the conclusion is wrong.

If I think for 10 minutes and then start typing, I want the typing to take the shortest time possible so I can get back to thinking. Any time I spend typing is an interruption that I want to minimize so I can keep my train of thought.

I recently started using Vim as my primary editor. As I’m adjusting I’m finding a lot of the blog posts people have written about Vim very helpful, so I’m hoping this post will help people too.

• Vim: http://www.vim.org/
• the: http://jeetworks.org/node/89
• blog: http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
• posts: http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/vim-is-your-daddy
• people: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim...
• have: http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/
• written: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-short...
• about: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim

 

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— Jeremy Clarkson reviews the Porsche 911 GT3