I installed and played with vim 7 on Saturday for about 6 hours, and it looks really, really good. vim is already my favorite text editor, and the changes in vim 7 make it even better. If you want to read a good article that covers that main features of the new vim, check out "First look at Vim 7". It's of reasonable length, and you'll learn a lot. Read it!

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Mmmm - mmmmh! Two great things that taste better together: vim & Firefox! Here's a page titled How to use Vim with Firefox that walks you through installing, configuring, & using the ViewSourceWith extension. Once that puppy's in place, you can either view a web page's html source using vim (or gvim) or - and this is SO FREAKING COOL! - you can right-click in any textarea, choose View Source With, and then you're editing that textarea in an external instance of vim. Save it, close it, and that stuff goes into that textarea. Too cool!

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This one is for the visual learners out there. I love vim, and have been using it for years, but I'm still learning new things about it all the time. For noobs to vim, the commands and so on can be a bit ... overwhelming, shall we say. Here's a neat way to learn vim: the "Graphical vi/vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial". These are a fantastic way to learn vim, or refresh your knowledge. Once you see them, you'll understand what I mean. These are pretty darn neat!

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